Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/South African cricket team in India in 2007-08

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The result was Keep. GlassCobra 09:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

South African cricket team in India in 2007-08[edit]

Delete this is premature at best; WP:CRYSTAL, and WP is not a repository of everything that has been, is, or ever will be. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:19, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unless a reliable source can be found to shown this tour is actually happening. What I can find says South Africa are going to Bangladesh, not India next year. If it is going to happen, keep the article: either the tour will happen (and be notable) or it won't, which will also be notable --Pak21 (talk) 20:31, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep: Genuine tour. Either it will happen (and be noteworthy) or it won't (which will also be noteworthy). Three months isn't too much crystal balling. --Pak21 (talk) 20:47, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It's a genuine tour, see this page on the ICC future tours programme at cricinfo [1] for example. The nominator could have found and added this source in ten seconds if he'd looked for it. It's not 'crystal' either, if it's in the FTP then it's going to happen, baring some political disaster and it's scheduled for March 2008 - in three months time. Test tours, although shorter than they used to be, are still notable sporting events by anyone's definition. Nick mallory (talk) 20:44, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Test tours are the top of the tree when it comes to cricket, and this is (as others have said) guaranteed to happen. It looks like a sorry excuse for an article at present, but that's going to change pretty soon, I think you'll find. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 03:42, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I don't see how this warrants an article of its own; I'm fairly sure that the tour won't get a play-by-play analysis; I'm not sure why a section can't be made on the South African cricket team page instead. Of course, I could be wrong. Master of Puppets ^{Care to share?} 05:31, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Um, you're wrong. Nick mallory (talk) 07:07, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In a more helpful vein, I'd imagine (having been involved in the copyediting of a few of them) that something like this would be the end result. There are articles like this on most recent Test series, generally due to I believe the prominence of any tour and also to the fact that keeping it on the relevant team's page would make some exceedingly long articles. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 07:17, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletions. ——Moondyne 08:48, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep tour by one major cricketing nation of another. Highly notable. DuncanHill (talk) 10:22, 21 December 2007 (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.