Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States Senate election in New Mexico, 2020

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The result was no consensus. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:50, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

United States Senate election in New Mexico, 2020

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TOOSOON. This will undoubtedly be notable later, but not now. We still have to deal with the 2018 elections, and nobody's even running against the current incumbent. Delete. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 01:11, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Again, see above, I created this as a redirect to the general article on United States Senate elections, 2020, so the redirect could be recreated (it is one of 33 articles on 2020 Senate elections by state, and could have potential candidates added). PS. I have notified the creator of the article! Hugo999 (talk) 01:24, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Mexico-related deletion discussions. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 01:25, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 01:25, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Restore redirect per WP:CRYSTAL -- if I understood correctly, these are not the earliest future elections. BTW the author of this expansion, Westroopnerd has recently similarly expanded a number of these redirects, he/she might want to chime in. Daß Wölf 01:32, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. First of all, ALL of these elections are the earliest elections of their type to take place. New Mexico (or at least this particular class of Senators) isn't seeing another election until 2020, as are the rest of these elections, so "dealing with the 2018 elections" is simply not a valid thing to say. Some of these elections indeed do have challengers to these incumbents. Some of these pages had already been created with listings for these challengers. The fact is, from everything that I understand, it is considered perfectly reasonable to create a page for an election two years out, when the events have notability and speculation surrounding them (which they do, I can provide testimony to that if needed) and there had already been articles created. Other than the fact that I put effort into expanding these redirects, I have no personal problem with restoring the redirect. The fact is, though, considering these election pages would absolutely and inevitably need to be created within a few months at most (as has been the case in the past) is restoring the redirect really a pressing issue in the slightest? Just my two cents, feel free to revert back to my already created template when y'all inevitably need to recreate these articles in barely any time at all. Westroopnerd (talk) 02:36, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:53, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete We don't generally have next-but-one election articles. Can be easily restored after the 2018 elections. Number 5 7 11:29, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I was under the belief that this is the next election for this class of senators- but if I've missed a discussion let me know. jcc (tea and biscuits) 18:31, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- Too soon for this, it can be recreated once someone officially announces their candidacy. A list of people who might run for office is not encyclopedic.--Rusf10 (talk) 03:17, 14 January 2018 (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.