Deletion of Athletics at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' 10 kilometre walk

Comment: Alright, this is a protest vote more than anything else, but c'mon.  Lugnuts is wrong.   ''excludes'' anything below the senior Olympics and the Paralympics.  That the Youth Olympics is the internationally recognized version for youngsters does not automatically follow that they've been included in  - any more that the numerous internationally sanctioned youth competitions in other sports have been - and I invite Lugnuts to link to the consensus that they have. "Seems to pass GNC" sic is not good enough; I'd like to see some evidence that it does before anyone claims that it does, please
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ATHLETE||WP:ATHLETE)

Comment: per , , and /Wikipedia:NSPORT#Olympic and Paralympic Games: the Youth Olympics are not the Olympics
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTSTATS||WP:NOTMIRROR||WP:ATHLETE)

Comment: the event is notable under  as an elite international competition.  This is sanctioned by the IOC, just like the Paralympics.  Subsequently each gold medalist is NOW notable, because of their participation in this event, though they are so new to the scene that an article has yet to be written about them.  As mentioned above, they are more likely to have an article written as they advance in their careers, or possibly also if this becomes their highest achievement.  This event is so recent, time has not had the opportunity to get this done.  You can't hold red links against them or this article.  I repeat this on AfD so often, but nobody listens:  there is no reason to rush to judgement, to rush to delete.  Deletion ruins any potential an article has.  It hides the work anybody else has already done and places a stigma on an article that potentially leads to future speedy deletion.  I'm particularly sensitive to this territory because I am the guy who is writing the articles (like James Stallworth (athlete) and Obea Moore) about flash in the pan elite youth athletes.  But this is so recent, even I don't know which of these will generate enough significance for my attention . . . yet
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ATHLETE)

Comment: the dead links are fixable, I was planning to go around to fix them. As individual events at an International Olympic Committee-banner Olympic Games, these events are certainly '''not''' "non-notable". I'm going to have to be guilty on  here, but there are articles just like these (as in, almost empty but for results and dead links) for senior Olympics too. There has also been a prior deletion discussions on Youth Olympics events, which closed as keep: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canoeing at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' K1 slalom
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OTHERSTUFF)

Comment: per Wikipedia:NSPORT#Olympic_and_Paralympic_Games which states: "Events at individual Summer or Winter, Olympic or Paralympic Games are considered notable, e.g. Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's road race or Skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's" The Youth Olympics is the internationally recognised version for youngsters. Also, all the competetors are notable, per . Just because they're red-linked, doesn't mean they're not notable
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ATHLETE)

Comment: redlink farm.  The youth olympics don't have even a thousandth the notability of the real Olympics, and this level of detail on them violates .  Encyclopedias don't include a record of every time someone runs around a track or tosses a ball
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)