Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, 2009

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The result was keep. overtaken by events. If renaming is desired, it may be discussed on the talk page (or someone may boldly do it.) (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 02:29, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, 2009[edit]

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Note to closer: This AfD was about an election which did not happen on 25 November 2009. Subsequently, an election did happen on 1 December, so the article was rewritten completely to be about the new, actual one. Sorry for the confusion :) Orderinchaos 00:43, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This article is based on a misunderstanding of events. The leadership election never happened. It was the ballot to have such a contest (aka the "spill motion") that failed 48-35. [1] The event ought to be documented in the Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Andrews articles. Digestible (talk) 03:02, 25 November 2009 (UTC) Nomination withdrawn. See below. Digestible (talk) 03:02, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. per nom. Unlike the previous two, this was not a vote for the leadership, this was to vote for a spill. Timeshift (talk) 03:06, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and Timeshift. Did not occur. Frickeg (talk) 03:08, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

*Delete - it was a technical motion, not a leadership ballot, and it failed meaning the leadership ballot never went ahead. Orderinchaos 03:15, 25 November 2009 (UTC) Circumstances overtook. Orderinchaos 00:41, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. —Digestible (talk) 03:17, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. —Digestible (talk) 03:17, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Pretty misleading to call it an "election" and include it in the 2009 elections category! As per above, this was an unsuccessful vote on whether to hold another vote, and a whole article on the topic is really not necessary. Keep now that this has happened. --Canley (talk) 03:21, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Was not a leadership election, merely a failed motion to spill the leadership positions. Jmount (talk) 04:05, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Failed attempts to hold a leadership election are not worthy of their own articles except in extraordinary cases. This isn't. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 04:24, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As per Nominaton. Nb. Kevin Andrews has already been updated to include some of the relevent info.
--220.101.28.25 (talk) 08:46, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom Nick-D (talk) 01:47, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per Digestible --Surturz (talk) 11:19, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Cautious Delete, I suspect events may soon overtake us, but for the moment there hasn't actually been any leadership election. We'll see if the Mad Monk changes that on Monday. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 03:06, 28 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Even so, the article as is would need to be wiped and recreated if there is such an election tomorrow. This may not require deletion as an outcome. Orderinchaos 00:44, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update: 1 December 2009[edit]

Retain and rewrite from scratch A second spill motion was passed and a leadership spill held. (And they elected Tony Abbott?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!) Timrollpickering (talk) 23:27, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I have rewritten it. Unfortunately I have to run out the door so I wrote it mostly from memory - could someone please source the thing? Open to renaming per Moondyne also. Orderinchaos 00:41, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
NOMINATION WITHDRAWN Events have changed since the nomination. Today produced an actual leadership contest. Digestible (talk) 01:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rename Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, 2009. –Moondyne 01:15, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and move as above to Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill as it is not a leadership election as such. JRA_Westy Qld2 ^Talk 04:32, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment May also be completely wrong about renaming, previous spills have been called leadership elections as well. JRA_Westy Qld2 ^Talk 04:36, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Tis a trivial matter to rename the others if need be. I think there's only two but I'm not certain. Orderinchaos 11:33, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and rename as per Moondyne - this is how it's being reported in the news ABC - I believe that Spill is the motion to elect a new leader, and then the election proceeds to elect the new leader ...^chat.edits 05:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, there is a leadership spill article btw. –Moondyne 05:39, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, obviously notable now. —Nightstallion 09:29, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, documents the challenge for the leadership much better than could be done on the pages of the individual members or on the liberal party article 118.208.28.176 (talk) 23:47, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
'Keep, no question now of notability; it is in any case now about a different event. Frickeg (talk) 01:55, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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