Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steroid usage amongst Dominican Athletes

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus, default to keep. Badly needs cleaning up, though. Neıl ☎ 12:53, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Steroid usage amongst Dominican Athletes

Besides strong Biography of Living Persons concerns, this is a point of view essay and original research, not an encyclopedia article. Corvus cornix_talk 01:59, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

keep - with cleanup. there are other articles which are similiar including List of Major League Baseball players suspended for performance-enhancing drugs , List of Major League Baseball players named in the Mitchell Report, Doping at the Olympic Games, Pittsburgh drug trials, and List of doping cases in sport This only shows that that occur amongst Dominican Athletes. ChuloConWepa (talk) 02:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep — If you have issues with the content, the solution is absolutely not deletion. Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 02:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- BLP is always a grounds for deletion. So is OR. Corvus cornix_talk 02:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - every sentence is cited. how is it OR ? ChuloConWepa (talk) 02:23, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, unless we want to also create pages on Steroid usage amongst American athletes, Steroid usage amongst European athletes, etc. Spell4yr (talk) 07:01, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:BEANS. Stifle (talk) 15:42, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Just because we don't have those articles doesn't mean we should get rid of the one article covering steroid usage by a particular ethnic group. Create those articles. Monobi (talk) 03:54, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Sport in the Dominican Republic (if it's created...). Punkmorten (talk) 07:42, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not notable. Ecoleetage (talk) 13:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:JNN SashaNein (talk) 17:37, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment per Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion, "To avoid confusing newcomers, the reasons given for deletion should avoid Wikipedia-specific acronyms." The least you could do is link them up so newcomers have some chance of making sense of the debate. Beeblbrox (talk) 00:00, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

fine, fine I'll just do it myself. Beeblbrox (talk) 22:21, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep the article has ten citations for its about 13 lines, it is not a BLP issue if we simply quote what reliable sources say. OR isn't grounds to delete the whole article, and any BLP concerns are solved by sticking to existing sources in print, as most of the article currently seems to do. Merkin's mum 01:34, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Verifiable, but non-notable topic. Stifle (talk) 15:42, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 19:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per Stifle. Although the info might make an interesting part of a larger article on steroid usage among athletes in general.Divinediscourse (talk) 22:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per kmweber. Monobi (talk) 03:54, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This article is well-sourced and appears to be of importance. If anything, it is only in need of cleanup, and AfD is NOT cleanup. SashaNein (talk) 17:37, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete How does being a Dominican athlete who did steroids make you an encyclopedic topic? Now if any of these people are notable as individuals then they can just have their own article. _(1 == 2)^Until 15:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.