Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 Summer Olympics highlights
If "highlight" is the issue, then why is this not a move request? The "policy based reason" is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and this page presents content in a reader-friendly format not otherwise found on the site. People seem to think that this page consists of editors adding "My cousin Tony thinks archery is lame", when the page is a strictly sourced summary mainly consisting of broken world records, national firsts, and gold medal tables, with about as little color commentary as can be imagined. If a reader wants to know, "What records were broken in the 2008 Summer Olympics?", "Were there any countries who won gold after Olympic droughts?" or even "I don't recall what happened during the 2008 Summer Olympics. I wonder if Wikipedia has a page that can summarize the sporting events with a few directed comments on when something unusual happened", then this is the page. If you delete this page, you force the reader to investigate several dozen individual event pages to find the same info, and then cross check with the competitor bio or national Olympic page to see if there is relevant info about significance not captured in the tables. Many times "it's useful" doesn't mean |ITSUSEFUL
— User:BanyanTree, 14:08, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ITSUSEFUL (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)