Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Synchronized diving

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The result was redirect. Any content worth merging can be pulled from the page history. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:31, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Synchronized_diving

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This article has been in existence for about three and a half years yet has only had less than 50 edits and remains an insubstantial stub. I would suggest merging it with the Diving article, but this is unnecessary since the entire content of the stub is already contained within that article, which gives an adequate summary of the Synchroninzed subsection of the sport of Diving. DaveApter (talk) 17:55, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/Redirect to Diving. I dare say there is scope for expanding this, but the section in the Diving article could stand to be expanded somewhat before it would merit splitting into a separate article.--Michig (talk) 18:07, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:01, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2011 December 6. Snotbot t • c » 20:02, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Bold redirect - until there's enough material to warrant its own article, it's a reasonable search term and redirects are cheap.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 21:17, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

~~Keep~~ - This is a recognized Olympic sport. We wouldn't "boldly redirect" Synchronized_swimming to Swimming, would we? Carrite (talk) 21:50, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Synchronized diving is one discipline of diving as a sport, usually undertaken by divers who also compete in individual diving, not really analagous to synchronized swimming, which is more like artistically treading water. If anyone fancies expanding it, great, but a redirect seems reasonable in the meantime given the minimal, duplicated content.--Michig (talk) 22:11, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep per Carrite. Not only is it in the Olympics, it's in the Commonwealth Games, the Asian Games, etc. Redirect to diving. The Olympics site has it listed under diving, along with individual 3 and 10m events, not as a separate sport. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:25, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to diving. I actually find this citation compelling and Michig's take not unreasonable, at least until such time that the diving page is so massive that it has a sub-page needing to be sprung off. Speed Skating and Figure Skating are treated independently by the Olympics website, as are Alpine Skiing and Cross-Country Skiing. Not so here. Keep vote stricken. Redirect without prejudice. Carrite (talk) 02:44, 7 December 2011 (UTC) Oh, what a punster I am... Accidental, I assure you.[reply]

as nom, I change my vote to Redirect. It makes sense that a search for this phrase would turn up that article. The comparison with Synchronized swimming is inappropriate - that is a distinct discipline which requires a completely different skill set and performance criteria from the sport of Swimming and is performed by a different set of competitors, whereas this is invariably contested by the same divers using the same skills. DaveApter (talk) 11:01, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as above. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:00, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as above. I am afraid that this AFD is a glimpse at that the conversation with the IOC have been like in trying to get this into the Olympic Games. Elmmapleoakpine (talk) 00:32, 10 December 2011 (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.