Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European Parliament election, 2014 (United Kingdom)

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The result was redirect to European Parliament election, 2014. Cirt (talk) 22:21, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

European Parliament election, 2014 (United Kingdom)[edit]

2014? No point to this being here yet, not a WP:CRYSTAL ball, nothing of any encyclopedic purpose to say at this time. DreamGuy (talk) 15:43, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Per WP:CRYSTAL there is no need to have an article about a future event before there is something to say about it. The 2009 election finished two weeks ago. In a couple of years, once candidates start announcing and there is something meaningful to say, then by all means, we should an article, but this is premature. The same goes for European Parliament election, 2014, which as of now presents only the results of the 2009 election. Cool3 (talk) 15:59, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. List of participating parties is pure speculation at this point, and article contains no other concrete information. Hqb (talk) 16:59, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The 2014 European Parliament elections are a certainty, and the race for office will be in advance of the actual voting date. If deleted, this article will need to be recreated in the near future. It is a well organized template for what is certain to be a much edited and very welcomed and informational article on the upcoming elections. I note that there is an article for the United States presidential election, 2012. No one is suggesting to delete that article, and the same logic should apply here. Beltline (talk) 18:07, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note to closing admin: This editor is currently under investigation as a possible sockpuppet of banned User:Azviz -- If it is important to the close result, please check the current status. DreamGuy (talk) 20:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, that article has been suggested for deletion in the past... and has been deleted in the past for the exact same reasons. Thanks for bringing that up. DreamGuy (talk) 20:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please show me where it "has been suggested for deletion" or "has been deleted" in the past. I don't see it. Beltline (talk) 23:29, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was AFDed here. However, that was in 2006, before even the 2008 election had even properly got going, so that's not quite the same thing. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 07:17, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, Beltine should look at this. The 2012 article has a fair amount of detail, and is about one specific position, and has one guaranteed candidate (Obama). This is juts a table, with a date. Delete and recreate in about four years time. Darrenhusted (talk) 18:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 18:40, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 18:41, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but remove the tables. It's virtually certain there will be a European Parliament election in 2014, and it's standard practice to have stubs that are expected to grow into full articles. However, the list of parties standing at the next election is speculation (and, in all probability, half the parties that failed to elect candidates won't stand again). Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 19:02, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to European Parliament election, 2014 since there is no real information here, but will be in the future. No need to do all that work with the tables over again in five years. --Explodicle (T/C) 19:07, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Writing about an even 5 years before it occurs...WP:CRYSTAL. Yes, the elections will most likely occur, but much on the landscape will change in the interim. Look no further than the last US Presidential election. People winning straw polls 2 years before the election weren't even on the ballot when Iowa voted. Delete it and re-write it in 3 years. Niteshift36 (talk) 21:29, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to European Parliament election, 2014, no sources, pure speculation at this point - Maybe the UK won't even be in the EU in five years. Additionally the article provides absolutely no information to the reader. Guest9999 (talk) 22:37, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why delete first? I don't see why we need to hide the article history here. --Explodicle (T/C) 20:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep unless you believe that nobody is planning for it yet, and that nobody will be writing their speculations and predictions. The final state of the event occurs in 5 yrs, the preliminaries much sooner. DGG (talk) 08:42, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to European Parliament election, 2014, and then bring it back in, say, 2012 (going on the basis that the page for the recent elections was started in 2007). DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 15:59, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to European Parliament election, 2014. That seems to be the most logical choice. It's like having an article for the U.S. Senate Election in a specific state. We have an article for the Senate Election in 2014, but not for the election in each state.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 20:16, 23 June 2009 (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.