Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017 World Baseball Classic


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The result was   redirect to World Baseball Classic. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:52, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

2017 World Baseball Classic

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Pure speculation. By all accounts on google, the setup for the 2017 WBC is still to be determined. See https://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/2013/03/mlb-officials-terms-for-2017-world-baseball-classic-qualifying-not-set-yet/

Without any sources to the contrary, this is pure speculation at best. Smartyllama (talk) 19:50, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:01, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:01, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep.. I'm going to say keep on this one because the WBC is scheduled to be played next in 2017 so it makes sense to have an article for it, just like we have one for the 2016 Summer Olympics and other upcoming competitions. I'd agree that the qualification article is premature though. Spanneraol (talk) 18:11, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete and Redirect to the 2013 article We are here to build an encyclopedia, not write throwaway articles in future tense in Wikipedia's voice.  Unscintillating (talk) 01:34, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is created too soon. L smll  07:04, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep The WBC is the highest-level baseball tournament in the world and the 2017 event has already been announced. There's no sense in deleting this page and requiring someone to recreate it later. - Bbny-wiki-editor (talk) 05:33, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to World Baseball Classic. It's too early for its own article. (Similarly, today I just redirected 2014 Major League Baseball Draft to Major League Baseball Draft. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:37, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Week Delete or Redirect it is too soon if the venue and format are not know/sourced to reliable sources. No bar on re-creation (with out silly flags as per WP:INFOBOXFLAG) when all of this is known.  LGA talk  edits   00:21, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
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