Deletion of 2008 Summer Olympics medals per capita

Comment: into Olympic medal table#Other ranking systems and/or 2008 Summer Olympics medal table.  I will withdraw my request that you substantiate your baseless accusations of POV-pushing and a lack of reliable sources, and I hope you will withdraw the baseless accusations themselves, in the spirit of  and .  Thank you for your consideration
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Consensus (WP:CCC||WP:OI)

Comment: Does the ''Los Angeles Times'' not have a "reputation for fact-checking and accuracy" as described in  and 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:RS)

Comment: This is deletionism taken to a senseless extreme. The article clearly isn't original research - the information is sourced to an external reference.  does deprecate the use of blogs but actually says "Self-published material may, in some circumstances, be acceptable when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications." LATimes is, I think we can agree, a reliable third party publication and the person who wrote the article Chuck Culpepper is described http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/14244-0/author-Chuck-Culpepper.htm here as a "lead sports columnist" - sounds like an established expert to me. The final argument - NPOV - is a poor argument for deletion
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)

Comment: The article fails |Wikipedia's notability guidelines. There really is not enough significant coverage to determine an independent article, considering the media amplitude of the Olympics. Note the following of the current nine citations
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: As I listed above, the article fails the three fundamental policy pillars of Wikipedia.  Please don't take my analogy out of context, as it was in reference to following , , and .  If a medal/capita standard was universally adopted by the IOC and world press, then it would easily satisfy the three listed policies
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV||WP:RS||WP:NOR)