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This article was nominated for deletion on August 28, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

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To get an article through an AfD safely, you need to make sure that there are clear references for the key points. Simply having them in the external links section will not be enough. Take a look at WP:CITE for some help at doing this. I hope this helps! LinaMishima 01:42, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will use criticism of this article as a wholesale indictment of the wikipedia revue system. This article was flagged for being unreferenced. I did add a few independent references, but as I analyze the article it is obviously heavily sub-referenced within wikipedia. Are you suggesting that an article needs to be additionally referenced to the same sources already cited in the sub-referencing articles? Too many articles are being deleted from wikipedia after a microscopic revue period by an even more microscopic group of people who understand the process. The only logic I can see to this rush to judgement would be to save storage space on the wikipedia server. By duplicating all the references already contained elsewhere, you are effectively wasting wikipedia server space in the same fashion. In other words, the information is out there, all you have to do is click to read and see where it came from. Do not discredit the face of an article with flags that misrepresent the information it contains. I am removing the reference flags from this article Trackinfo (talk) 02:55, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another page referencing masters athletics

Just noticed another page referenceing masters track and field after seeing the AfD for this page. It can be found at Masters (athletics). David D. (Talk) 18:00, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now tagged for merge. GregorB 21:13, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that most of the other article should be merged here, but a new article on "Masters sports competitions" or such should be created as an umbrella. Masters (athletics) mentions rowing and there are golf tournaments for older competitors.--Hjal 15:53, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merging might look funny/redundant in this instance.

But it's probably advisable, since a search of this site might take one to the shorter article and not the one more fully fleshed out. So I support merge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TrackCEO (talk • contribs) 10:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The other page

should be eliminated in favor of this page. trackinfo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.224.58.33 (talk) 20:08, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Age Grade tables were updated again in 2010.

Women's age grade info for distances >= 5K were changed in 2010. Reference: http://home.roadrunner.com/~alanjones/AgeGrade.html Georgeruns (talk) 15:43, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Age & Sport

The article currently states that masters is for ages 35+. However, for nordic skiing, masters are age 30+ and for swimming, masters are age 18+. Rhall28 (talk) 09:43, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]