Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game


 * 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   delete. The article presents a future event entirely in the past tense, as if it already happened. Literally, the WP:CRYSTAL policy is, well, crystal clear: the article speaks as if it's recounting history from the future via a crystal ball and is inherently unverifiable and obviously uncertain to happen in the manner described by the article. The question of whether it's "too soon" is superceded by the very literal interpretation of those policies. slakr \ talk / 07:17, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

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Too soon. Wikipedia is not a Crystal ball. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 23:25, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:31, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:CRYSTAL. Create this no earlier than when the two championship teams are decided, which isn't until April 2015. Jrcla2 (talk) 14:54, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Jrcla2. Beyond the date and location of the game there is nothing to report. Rikster2 (talk) 12:51, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge: There is already an article created for the 2015 Rose Bowl, the 2015 Sugar Bowl, and the 2015 College Football Championship Game and those are not happening until January 2015 (teams are not going to be determined for those events until December 2014) but an alternative option would be to merge the article to 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament or 2014-15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season until a date sooner to the national title game. Michiganwolverines2014 (talk) 17:27, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not a valid argument for keeping an article. Jrcla2 (talk) 20:25, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep One year in advance is not incredibly soon for an article to be made. If we delete it and it is remade within the next six months, it would be more efficient to just leave it up and continue to add to it as the year goes by. Adamh4 (talk) 16:21, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * May I add that the article does not contain a single source for any of its claims. If one year is not too soon to have an article, what is? As Jrcla noted, the article can always be remade when the national champion teams are decided. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 20:51, 5 May 2014 (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.