# Talk:43rd Chess Olympiad

I removed the "toosoon" template. Although Batumi 2018 is indeed two years in the future, it's an event at which thousands of competitors from more than 180 countries will be playing. Useful for the encyclopedia to have a stub article. Billbrock (talk) 23:57, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

This is a micro-stub. And there is no realistic chance of expanding it beyond that before 2018. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:28, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
Discussion and !votes about whether this article should be deleted should be posted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/43rd Chess Olympiad. Strawberry4Ever (talk) 17:55, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

User:Greenman, I deliberately chose not to mention the cities involved in the bids since although South Africa originally proposed  Cape Town (see also section 6.3 of ref. 6), it apparently changed its mind by the time of the vote, and I couldn't find more details on how that actually happened. Also the proposal involving Sun City could use a source. Cobblet (talk) 15:15, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

The source I added lists Sun City. It also mentions Cape Town, and then Durban in the results, but I left this as Durban as per the other sources. If there's a better source about the last-minute change of city, we can add that. Greenman (talk) 21:42, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Does this article deserve the {{good article}} tag which was just added? It looks more like a stub. Strawberry4Ever (talk) 21:25, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

No, I removed the template.  My guess is that it was accidentally pasted into the article when adding the infobox.  Quale (talk) 03:22, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

I think this stuff belongs somewhere else on wikipedia, rather than the olympiad coverage. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 11:11, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

That should more conveniently go to a separate article on the FIDE presidential election but it's a valid matter of discussion if it merits one. I don't know the exact nature of holding the election at the Chess Olympiads and would assume that FIDE want to make this event a central place for the development of chess. So, in case we consider the Chess Olympiad only as a two-section competition among national teams, then it'd definitely go in a new article; but if the Chess Olympiad is considered an event that integrates the competition among national teams with the FIDE congress and the other promotional events. then there's no strong reason to bring it elsewhere. Our long-standing practice is to simply report a one-sentence outcome of such elections in the section on the FIDE congress that took place during a specific Chess Olympiad. This time we have apparently much more than just a one-sentence update but it still doesn't convince me that there's more proper place to cover it.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 12:59, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

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