# Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500-metre freestyle

@Mpjmcevoybeta you removed nearly the entire qualification section without an edit summary, what is your reasoning? I added it because the information can be useful to the reader despite how other articles do not have it Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 03:01, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Yoblyblob, I think the qualification information is excessive detail for this article. I think some of it should be removed from Wikipedia entirely (most the material that cites purely primary sources, or doesn't cite at all), some should be moved to the athlete bios (for the less notable athletes), and the rest should be moved to the competitions they qualified from. It is a wonderful world (talk) 14:00, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
@It is a wonderful world, I disagree with this, because Olympics pages are extremely bland. Most pages are a few tables of results and not much else, with some summaries of the larger events. The qualification information is helpful for readers, and generally provides more background that is usually not there. Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 15:43, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
@Yoblyblob Unfortunately it is true that currently most Olympics pages are extremely bland, but the solution to that is to make them better without going into unnecessary detail and violating WP:INDISCRIMINATE. I plan to de-stub this article as I have to a few others already (e.g. Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 metre freestyle) so I don't think blandness will be a concern for much longer, at least for this specific article. IAWW (talk) 17:04, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
@It is a wonderful world I would still say some qualification information is relevant, even if not at the scale of the current page Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 17:53, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
Okay, when I get around to doing this article I'll take a more in depth look. IAWW (talk) 18:12, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
Hi @Yoblyblob, I condensed the information into a table in preparation for bringing the article to GA. I hope you agree this strikes a good balance? IAWW (talk) 19:22, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
Sorry that I never got back to this. The table is a good way to condense the information Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 19:34, 16 April 2025 (UTC)
Hi @Yoblyblob, I'm happy we found a balance! I ended up using this in all the other articles in this topic as well! IAWW (talk) 22:39, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

I trimmed the lead per MOS:LEDE to better summarize key points. There's no need to mention the pool is 50m long and how many laps. It dilutes the lede. Similar or same issue was raised earlier: see talk. See also User:IP49XX/Why MOS Matters for further explanation. IP49XX (talk) 00:48, 13 May 2025 (UTC)