Talk:Paris hosting the Olympic Games

This article was nominated for deletion. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination:

Disambiguate, 1 September 2024, see discussion.
Withdrawn, 27 July 2024, see discussion.

This should be a disambiguation page

This page should not be an outright redirect to 2024 Summer Olympics, per WP:RECENTISM. Rather, it should be a disambiguation page in the same vein as Los Angeles Olympics, Salt Lake City Olympics, Lake Placid Olympics, Beijing Olympics, and Innsbruck Olympics, to name a few other examples where cities have hosted (or will soon host) multiple Olympic games.

Given that the 2024 Summer Olympics are presently ongoing, though, I don't currently feel strongly that this warrants a "speedy" resolution prior to the conclusion of these Olympics in ~2 weeks. The following factors, though, should be monitored to ensure their balance doesn't worsen in the meantime. At time of writing:

In the positive, the redirect is helping route ~1,500 pageviews/day which are undoubtedly seeking information on the ongoing games, but
In the negative, there are already 20 articles in the main namespace which link directly here that will ultimately need to be disambiguated.

--Tim Parenti (talk) 02:40, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I converted this to a redirect. When I did so, I looked at many of the incoming links and did not find a single one that intended to link to this page, but the target was the current Olympic Games. Schwede 66 15:35, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now that the Games are over, I reviewed the metrics presented above:

Pageviews are substantially down; an initial spike around the Opening Ceremony subsided within less than a week, and there was only a modest bump around the Closing Ceremony.
Inbound links are currently only at 27, up from 20 near the start of the Games.

In anticipation that this page will soon become a disambiguation page, per strong precedent and further consensus currently forming at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 August 11#Paris Olympics, I'll begin work on disambiguating those inbound links, as I expect most intend to target 2024 Summer Olympics specifically.

--Tim Parenti (talk) 15:25, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note that I disambiguated all incoming links when I converted this to a redirect, but I see that list has grown again. Schwede 66 15:38, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, I don't observe such contributions around that time (24 July 2024 00:00 UTC), but the important thing is that, between our efforts, it's currently handled. Talk on London Olympics has recently resulted in its conversion to a WP:DAB; I expect this will shortly follow, per ongoing RfD consensus and strong precedent. --Tim Parenti (talk) 20:45, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bold

imo this conversion to disambiguation is not controversial and there is clear precedent, it's one of the best ways to make a bad redirect good, I suggest following wp:bold 172.56.179.211 (talk) 16:09, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

While I agree in principle, since someone started a discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 August 11#Paris Olympics, we should now defer to that for the specifics. There are many possible ways to go about restoring a proper disambiguation here; it seems the easiest may be to simply restore a previous version that once existed here but has since been moved. --Tim Parenti (talk) 18:28, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]