Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French presidential election, 2022

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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Mélencron (talk) 04:47, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

French presidential election, 2022

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WP:CRYSTALBALL; incredibly premature, most declarations of candidacies probably won't be known until past 2020, and there probably won't be more than a dozen polls until 2020 as well – article is simply an empty husk until then. Mélencron (talk) 21:58, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 22:36, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Actually, WP:CRYSTAL is typically interpreted to allow an article on the next one in an ongoing series of notable events; the guideline specifically mentions the 2020 US Presidential election as an example of an appropriate article topic. Unless there is something particularly uncertain about the next French election, I'd think there will quickly be enough material to add here. --Arxiloxos (talk) 23:26, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep As has been pointed out by Arxiloxos, the nominator misunderstands WP:CRYSTAL, which allows for articles on "Individual scheduled or expected future events... [that are] notable and almost certain to take place". See, for example, the result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States presidential election, 2020 (2nd nomination). Number 5 7 06:55, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as this is not a violation of WP:CRYSTAL. An article on the 2027 election would be too premature though and that could probably be deleted per WP:CRYSTAL. Not this one. —MRD2014 📞 contribs 13:47, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:13, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep– per the other votes, WP:CRYSTAL does not apply to the next election in a regular cycle. Chessrat ^{(talk, contributions)} 23:26, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Nom has cited WP:CRYSTAL which states "Wikipedia is not a collection of unverifiable speculation". It also states, in the first point, that examples of appropriate topics for articles about upcoming events include future elections. AusLondonder (talk) 04:35, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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