Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States of America Computing Olympiad

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 no consensus and it does not appear further input is likely. Star Mississippi 01:19, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

United States of America Computing Olympiad

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Not notable, I tried to find reliable sources that cover USACO but none of them are mainly about USACO. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 07:50, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 07:50, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

- Comment. Is this the only or main feeder competition to select the US team for the International Olympiad in Informatics? If so it is highly notable, that seems to be a major competitive programming contest. References could be found by starting from the IOI page. Also how well regarded is the IOI considered in the landscape of programming contests? Caleb Stanford (talk) 17:26, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In my understanding it is. But I do not think it would be notable that way because of WP:INHERITORG? For example the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad might be notable under your criteria, but has even less media coverage than USACO. Per WP:ORGDEPTH these two would be both not notable. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 07:07, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

- Then I think my vote is keep per WP:COMMONSENSE. I agree with WP:INHERITORG and WP:ORGDEPTH but an organization in the united states that feeds into IOI would certainly be a huge deal in my estimation, barring a contrary opinion from someone with direct expertise/experience in computing olympiads. In my opinion, the fact that we have not found the sources yet doesn't mean they don't exist (I didn't have a chance to look yet). Likewise, we would not be justified delete the page Apple even if two, or even a dozen readers could not find independent reliable sources discussing Apples. Caleb Stanford (talk) 15:00, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. After a search, the NOI in China (National Olympiad in Informatics, China) was deleted because of a similar reason. (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=91939855)

If we keep USACO because it is the main feeder competition to select for the IOI team in the US, then the NOI article should be resurrected as well, per consensus.

I'm not sure if the fact of it being in the US alone makes it more notable than a competition in another country. 0xDeadbeef (talk) 01:54, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If United States of America Computing Olympiad is primarily of interest due to its relationship with the International Olympiad in Informatics but does not meet notability for a stand-alone article, we might consider a merge or redirect to the latter article. ~Kvng (talk) 17:21, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwaiiplayer (talk) 12:48, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:26, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.