Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of state leaders in 2016

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 IAR/SNOW keep. This is clearly not going to be deleted. The nominator's rationale will expire in 150 minutes, nobody has advocated deletiomn, and this drama fest needs to be shut down. BethNaught (talk) 09:32, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of state leaders in 2016

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This list is half-accurate—albeit with numerous reckless formatting errors—and half-not at all. It is not yet the year 2016 in all of North America or Oceania yet. For example, if the Governor of American Samoa were to resign or die in the next few hours, this list would be factually incorrect, false, erroneous, distorted, deceptive and thus misleading. I strongly propose in every single way, shape and form that we delete this article temporarily until all of the state leaders have reached to see in the New Year (of which should be within 12 hours). Moreover, the United States, arguably the most important country containing state leaders within the article, has not arrived in 2016 yet, they are still in 2015; this page would seem very odd and baffling to most American users, of which are the majority of editors on this site. The world does not centre around Zulu (UTC) time, there are plenty of time-zones which must be taken into account; any leader in the New World could leave office at any moment now, and, if this so happens, this list would be absolutely unfounded and lose credibility as an encyclopaedic resource. Neve-selbert 01:04, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, nonsense. --Norden1990 (talk) 01:48, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How is it nonsense? Explain, please. Neve-selbert 03:07, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Are you aware that these discussions typically last seven days? --| Uncle Milty | talk | 01:57, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, I was not aware. I will probably request a speedy deletion, if this should be necessary. Neve-selbert 03:07, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Have requested WP:CSD, as the article is, for the next few hours, totally inaccurate in regard to the Americas and Oceania. A possible compromise would be to remove these three continents until they have entered the New Year, although I am unsure if this will be too much to handle. Neve-selbert 03:16, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I will also note that the 2006 edition was created around mid-day on 1 January 2006, perfect timing; as practically all states had entered the New Year by that time. This should be a precedent that must be followed in future. Neve-selbert 03:32, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I'm not sure if the nominator realizes it, but this is a wiki, and if the information about any country becomes incorrect before midnight in that country's time zone, then that information can and should be corrected, and doing so would be a trivial effort once a reliable source is found to confirm the death or resignation of the former leader. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:25, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep. There is no harm in having the article ready a few hours or even days, early. If you really insist, slap an {{under construction}} tag on it until the whole world has made it into 2016. — This, that and the other (talk) 05:33, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. May I just ask, could we make a rule for when pages like these should be created in the future? I was really hoping to create my first article with this page at midnight UTC, and I had proofread, scanned and checked my draft repeatedly—having also done the same with all of the List of state leaders articles of the 21st century, thus far. I was plunged into disappointment and despair—and, I admit, anger—when I found that the article had already been created almost a day before. I feel totally disconcerted, and am considering whether or not I should probably leave Wikipedia until 2017 eventually comes, so I can be the first to create that article. I am extremely saddened by this situation (an apology could make me bear this grievance, although I concede it is unlikely to be given). This, in my eyes, is simply a tragedy; there should be a stipulation made in future. Would it be wrong just to delete the article for a few seconds, and I can recreate it with my own proofread draft? If not, I concede, per my own disillusionment. Neve-selbert 06:09, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 08:37, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 08:37, 1 January 2016 (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.