Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008

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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 Speedy keep. PeaceNT 15:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2008

2008 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

WP:CRYSTAL says that if it has not happened, we can't have an article on it. Future Rules 12:58, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep Although these events haven't happened, it's pretty sure that they will. Catastrophic events could happen, I suppose, to prevent things such as the Faroese parliamentary elections or the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, only a complete breakdown of the Solar System itself could prevent the total solar eclipse on 7 February. These events aren't so uncertain as they seem. Nyttend 13:18, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep As per WP:CRYSTAL - Individual scheduled or expected future events should only be included if the event is notable and almost certain to take place. Next year clearly fufills this. Davewild 13:20, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep SNOWBALL keep - WP:CRYSTAL is a policy to prevent people from speculating about future events, but does not prevent us from writing about events that we know are going to occur. Looking over the article, there are some items there that may individually violate WP:CRYSTAL but the article as a whole doesn't stand a chance of being deleted. --Hnsampat 13:54, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete The Sun could explode tomorrow and we would all die and then the elections so on would have no-one on them.'''[[User:Lizzie Harrison|Lizzie[[User talk:Lizzie_Harrison|Harrison]]''']] 14:28, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Response - Yes, but barring that, the year 2008 is expected to come. (It would, in fact, come anyway, as time does not stop if the Sun explodes. There'd just be nobody here to keep track of time. But, then again, if the Sun explodes, then there would be no more Wikipedia, so violating WP:CRYSTAL wouldn't be much of a problem anyway.) WP:CRYSTAL allows us to create articles for expected events. It just does not allow us to speculate. That's why, for example, we can't have an article on a fifth Jaws movie; it hasn't been planned and one could only guess as to when it would be made or what it would be about. --Hnsampat 15:27, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep per above. That's not exactly what WP:CRYSTAL says. Hut 8.5 15:15, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep can keeps be snowed too? --Whsitchy 15:29, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Yes, they can, and this one ought to be. --Hnsampat 15:32, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
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.