Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2023 San Francisco mayoral election


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The result was redirect to 2023 United States elections.  Sandstein  06:34, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

2023 San Francisco mayoral election

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I propose deleting this article. It appears to have been created too soon. There is not any substantive information. There is not even any information about candidates or potential candidates, other than the fact that the incumbent could possibly seek reelection (which is the case with any future election in which a non-term limited incumbent has not indicated they won't seek reelection). I'd propose deleting it, and only recreating it once source information about other potential, declared, or declined candidates comes out.

Yes there are other cities that have had their 2023 mayoral election articles created (Jacksonville, Chicago, Philadelphia), and I created the latter two cities' articles. But in those cases, there is sourced information about potential and/or delcared candidates, other than just a non-term limited incumbent. SecretName101 (talk) 22:20, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. SecretName101 (talk) 22:20, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. SecretName101 (talk) 22:20, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete and Move to Draftspace until the election becomes notable. — F ORMAL D UDE  ( talk ) 23:02, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I thought about proposing to move it to draftspace, but that might be somewhat unecessary. The article, as it stands, is so bare-bones that there is really nothing that could not be reproduced in mere minutes if the article is recreated from scratch. It literally has the basics any stub article would have on an election, and nothing else. Not opposed to moving to draft, but not sure that it is necessary to even retain this version as a draft, other than to save a few minutes over the possible alternative of recreating this from scratch later. SecretName101 (talk) 23:42, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I can agree with that for sure. Either way it should be deleted. — F ORMAL D UDE  ( talk ) 23:55, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Redirect to 2023 United States elections: I disagree with moving to draftspace. The most appropriate thing would be to simply create a redirect. This would allow the page to be instantly recovered when there are more sources and candidates. Curbon7 (talk) 05:13, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to 2023 United States elections This redirect target makes sense for an election that will become notable. --Enos733 (talk) 15:37, 8 July 2021 (UTC)


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