Talk:United States men's national artistic gymnastics team

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College team column[edit]

From the back and forths Mypurplelightsaber and I recently had, wanted to throw to the talk page. I believe that the college team column here should not show collegiate "commitments" as these are non-definitive and in my opinion fall under WP:FUTURE as "Wikipedia does not predict the future." The column demonstrates where an athlete has competed or is currently competing.

There are numerous gymnastic examples of decommits that show this forward-view likely doesn't make sense including Simone Biles (UCLA), Morgan Price (originally Arkansas), Aly Raisman (Florida), Ashton Locklear (Florida), Laurie Hernandez (Florida), etc., all of whom were originally committed to an NCAA program before either outright non-participation or switching schools. The website College Gym News has a whole page dedicated to tracking gymnasts' wavering commitments. GauchoDude (talk) 14:38, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I feel as though announced NCAA commitments (including both signed NLIs and verbal commits) do not fall under WP:FUTURE as those commitments are not a "collection of unverifiable speculation, rumors, or presumptions" and are "notable and almost certain to take place". Sure there are some exceptions in the past (which are less likely to happen now due to new NIL rules in the NCAA and the NCAA changing recruitment rules), but the phrasing says almost certain.

But as for Kai Uemura, there is a substantial amount of news that he is indeed going to Stanford (^[1]^[2]). If in the future he does not go to Stanford for whatever reason (forgoes NCAA or goes to a different school), then the column can be updated. But the most recent news says Stanford will be his NCAA team and suggesting he might not go there falls more in line with WP:FUTURE.

Also, if we remove the college commitments, that will more severely impact the women's national team since a lot of national team members have not yet started college (hence why the years are included in this column, which helps to indicate if they are current, past, future, or on-break NCAA athletes). Mypurplelightsaber (talk) 12:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Kai Uemura Signs". Parker Weekly. November 8, 2023.
^ "Nine Cardinal Named to National Team". Stanford Cardinal. February 25, 2024.

[1] "Kai Uemura Signs". Parker Weekly. November 8, 2023.

[2] "Nine Cardinal Named to National Team". Stanford Cardinal. February 25, 2024.

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