Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Parkruns in Australia

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Salvio ^giuliano 17:42, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

List of Parkruns in Australia (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Fails NLIST, there are not IS RS sources showing this has been discussed as a group. Article references ONE primary source 900+times. Wikipedia is not a mirror directory of parkrun events.  // Timothy :: talk  17:37, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sports, Lists, and Australia. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:56, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

• Keep. Nominating this article for insufficient sources six hours after its first creation, with about 70% of the individual entries incomplete, is inappropriate. WP:BEFORE C1 reads "If the article can be fixed through normal editing, then it is not a candidate for AfD". An assertion that article cannot be fixed with normal editing is far fetched. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 19:51, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

• It fails WP:NOTDIRECTORY, and so far as I can see, that can't be fixed with some routine editing. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:20, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:LISTN. I can't see any notable parkruns on there, all this list services is a giant linkfarm. Ajf773 (talk) 20:07, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
• Delete No links to any articles about them. List of Parkruns in the United Kingdom, List of Parkruns in the United States of America, List of Parkruns in France seem to have the same problem, some linking to locations not these events, or linking to external websites about them. Dream Focus 20:33, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
• Keep. The article could be referenced in the same way the other List of Parkruns in Country abc have been. WP:ListN doesn't give any specific advice and we decide on a case by case basis. This AFD is premature. Desertarun (talk) 21:13, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

What encyclopaedic merit does this topic have and how does it not fall under WP:NOTDIR? The USA, UK and France ones have their issues too so their existence does not automatically mean that the Australia one must be kept. There is no consensus (yet) that a list of Parkruns for a country is notable by default. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 21:46, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:NOTDIRECTORY. If people want to know where all the Parkruns are, they should use the Parkrun website, not except it to be found on an encyclopedia. Worth noting that all the other country's articles look to have been deleted now, and I see no evidence why this one should be any different. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:09, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
• Delete - WP:NOTDIR is policy and this very clearly is a directory of non-notable Parkrun events, which has no place in an encyclopaedia. Furthermore, there seems to be a complete lack of independent sources documenting this according to my searches. The best I could find was Parkrun blog but this clearly is not an independent source, is a blog and also doesn't completely list all Parkrun events in Australia, instead it lists just one for each letter of the alphabet. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:13, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
• Delete with much Speed. This is just a massive link farm for parkrun. Wikipedia is not here to help promote this organisation and is not a free web host for them. duffbeerforme (talk) 12:06, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
• Delete: It seems a lot of time has been spent on this article but unfortunately WP:NOTDIRECTORY. // GMH Melbourne (talk) 09:53, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
• Delete WP:NOTDIR. Also a list of entirely non notable entries. LibStar (talk) 10:33, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

• Delete WP:NOTDIR (maybe OP should publish the list on another website!) MetricMaster (talk) 08:58, 23 March 2023 (UTC) This user has made 47 edits to Wikipedia. Their contribution history shows that 38 of these were to AFD discussions. The account exists for votestacking and has been blocked.

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