Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017 Wimbledon Championships


 * 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 redirect to The Championships, Wimbledon. (non-admin closure) &mdash; Music1201  talk  04:28, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

2017 Wimbledon Championships

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WP:TOOEARLY, with only 1 source, and the 2016 US, 2017 Australian and 2017 French haven't created yet.  333-blue  23:36, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 03:39, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 03:39, 9 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep: No benefit to the encyclopedia from deleting this stub, which will inevitably be expanded enormously by this time next year. The date, definitively sourced, is already a key piece of information which real readers are likely to seek: lives are planned around it ("We can't have the village festival that Sunday, it's Wimbledon men's final"). Pam  D  07:01, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:CRYSTAL - "Individual scheduled or expected future events should be included only if the event is notable and almost certain to take place". I'm not sure on not having the other articles would stop this from being created. Using that logic, none of them could ever be created...  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 08:53, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 year, grand slams before that should have be created, but not.  333-blue  03:08, 10 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Incubate, redirect to The Championships, Wimbledon, and salt the redirect until 17 July 2017 The large font text for the one existing source in the article reads, PURCHASE OFFICIAL WIMBLEDON MERCHANDISE TODAY SHOP THE WIMBLEDON GIFT RANGE".  There is a total absence of sources to be found in Google news and Google books.  Further, WP:SUSTAINED in WP:N explains that Wikipedia is a lagging indicator of notability.  So this topic doesn't come close to being wp:notable, much less does it satisfy the higher requirements of WP:NOTNEWSPAPER, and it also fails WP:NOTPROMOTION.  Wikipedia is not a newspaper to help readers plan their lives.  Had this article anything useful to say from the encyclopedic sense, it would not need to use future tense.  Salt until two weeks after the expected start of the event, 17 July 2017.  Unscintillating (talk) 00:50, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Salt until after the event ends? That seems a bit extreme and not at all consistent with what has been done in the past. In fact, there will be ample information available before the event starts, things such as seedings. I also don't see the text you describe in the sources provided. There is a link to the Wimbledon shop in the header of one of the sources. Maybe you clicked through to that by mistake? That being said, it is too soon for an article now. Redirect per my vote below. Smartyllama (talk) 20:54, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * First of all thanks for the feedback that my quote cannot be verified. The promotion I am seeing today is " 2016 CHAMPIONSHIPS TOWELS PERSONALISE YOURS FOR FREE".  I looked at web.archive.org/ and found one archive dated 5 Sep 2015, .  The promotion then was, " 2015 CHAMPIONSHIPS TOWELS PERSONALISE YOURS FOR FREE".
 * Why would readers want an article that had seedings? Would readers in five years want to see that article?  If the article is not ready for mainspace, draftspace would be ideal to add the seedings to the draft.  If it makes a difference, I'd be ok with a soft redirect to draftspace from mainspace.  Unscintillating (talk) 00:45, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:CRYSTAL. Already verifiable information exists about the event, and if deleted, page would have to be recreated with the same content anyway. Patar knight - chat/contributions 03:32, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to The Championships, Wimbledon – Since tournaments before not yet created.  333-blue  11:40, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the general "The Championships, Wimbledon". For these bigger events, a few months out should be sufficient for creation. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:57, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect as it is WP:TOOSOON for an article. Suggestions to salt until after it is already over are a bit extreme, but wait until we have some concrete information other than dates. Smartyllama (talk) 20:54, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect for now until such time that will be created. I think possibily when the 2017 tennis season do start then maybe include it. Matt294069 is coming 00:52, 16 July 2016 (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.