Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danish European Union opt-outs referendum

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The result was Keep as per consensus. (closed by non-admin) RMHED (talk) 22:40, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Danish European Union opt-outs referendum

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The referendum hasn't been called yet, and it may not happen for several years to come. Besides, the intention is to call the referendum, but that will only happen with a majority of votes in parliament. Probably won't be a problem, but it still seems to me as a violation of WP:NOT#CRYSTALBALL. Lilac Soul ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 12:43, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Delete. Not a crystal ball. The PM announced yesterday that his government indends to hold a referendum but both the PM and his deputy stated that it has not yet been decided how many of the opt out clauses that will be included in any such referendum, and they also declined commenting about a date. The announcement was made as part of a 200+ clause policy manifesto, and as I understood the PM's speech, he was just repeating a promise made back in 2005. At the moment, this is merely a political vision, nothing definite. Provided that the government remains in power, it is also uncertain whether this will be the next referendum or whether this title will go to the future vote on the succession law, so I'm removing the link to this article from the list of Danish elections since the word "next" is used in that context. Valentinian ^{T / C} 13:28, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Keep. Even if the referendum isn't called, the context and issues surrounding it are notable -- and there's lots of independent sources about such a referendum. —Nightstallion 15:31, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Precedent, by the way -- various governments announced referendums on the failed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, and we've still got articles for the cancelled referendums (WITHOUT dates, too) on Wikipedia, confer the links in {{EU Constitution}}. In my opinion, this is neither crystal ball nor deletable on any other grounds. —Nightstallion 15:37, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Keep per Nightstallion. However, if this is all data that exists, merge it to Politics of Denmark a.k.a. Elections in Denmark. When there is more info on the referendum, an article should be recreated - however only if this is as far as it gets right now. --PaxEquilibrium (talk) 15:52, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I'll add a bit more information, but we've often got stubs on announced elections with little content, just as placeholders to people know where to put info... —Nightstallion 16:11, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Keep per Nightstallion. Everyking (talk) 15:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Keep I think the precedent Nightstallion mentions is convincing: there are other pages on announced referenda. Either they all go or they don't. C mon (talk) 15:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Plenty of reliable sources on the topic. In addition, this referendum never happened, yet is worthy of an article too. пﮟოьεԻ 57 16:56, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Per Nightstallion, this topic is important and has a lot of potential to develop even before the vote is called. It certainly isn't doing any harm. - J Logan ^t: 09:31, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Nightstallion and JLogan. - S. Solberg J. 11:39, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Nightstallion. Etherialemperor (talk) 20:12, 25 November 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.