Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2240

2240 was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to keep the article.

Delete
 * 1) The article has only one piece of information: that the Talmud says the world will end in this year. The only two links to it are from articles saying exactly the same thing.  No one who clicks one of those links will learn anything new by doing so.  Delete the article after unwikilinking those references. JamesMLane 07:32, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) I've added some more entries and used the template. &mdash; Jeandré, 2004-11-11t18:02z


 * Delete -- come on, if we had an entry for every year that religious nutjobs thought the World was going to end, we'd be putting in entries for all the years of the future for the next two centuries. And then we'd get into what Trekkies think is going to happen... Dunc|&#9786; 19:39, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but it's hardly like Judaism is some random doomsday cult. Darksun 20:31, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not deprecating the status of Judaism. I just don't see a reason to have a separate article that contains only one piece of information, when everyone reading the article will already have that information.  For example, End of the world summarizes the relevant Talmudic passages and concludes, "According to this calculation, the end of days will occur in the year 2240."  Wouldn't you feel cheated if you clicked on that link and found this article?  Nor is any useful expansion reasonably foreseeable.  Adding in the founding of Starfleet Academy or whatever would still leave it as a useless article. JamesMLane 04:46, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Keep
 * 1) Keep. Useful placeholder for e.g. predicted astronomical events, predicted religious events and events from fictional works. Predictions about future are part of the sum total of knowledge existing today and thus should be incorporated in encyclopedia. Besides, this page is a proper part of a larger Wiki-structure, deleting it would be as useful as striking out random lines from index of a book. If someone wants to check future events, what could be easier than using the same index mechanism we use for years in history? jni 10:50, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Keep. It's not like the some of the future events mentioned in Futurama, this is notable. Darksun 18:08, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Seems awfully POV to me. &mdash; David Remahl 19:13, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Keep as a year placeholder. -- Scott Burley 04:24, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) [Reply to Dunc's delete] You mean like 2161? Anyway Keep. [[User:Xezbeth| Xezbeth ]] 20:33, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) [Reply to Dunc's thread] Keep. I agree with Xezbeth. -- Chaz
 * 7) Keep. Aren't random little notes like this the reason we have all those years listed? This is definitely a keeper. - Lifefeed 16:29, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) I've added some more entries and used the template. &mdash; Jeandré, 2004-11-11t18:02z
 * 9) Keep, as this is an actual year for a preexisting theory. -- Mattworld 22:27, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) Keep, and maybe we ought to have a List of years in which the world will end. ;Bear 16:37, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)
 * 11) Keep, as a default reference to the events occurring in 2240. --*drew 13:09, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Merge/Redirect
 * 1) Merge/Redirect to 23rd century to Keep, I see absolutely no reson to delete this, it might need better categorization though &mdash; siro  &chi;  o  15:41, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) on second thoughts, merge+redirect to 25th century. Dunc|&#9786; 17:00, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) You probably mean 23rd century? Anyways I've changed my vote to merge as well, this seems the best idea for such a short article, and standard wiki-practice for articles about years so far in the future. &mdash; siro  &chi;  o
 * 4) Redirect to 23rd century. This should be standard practice for dates far in the future with few predicted events. zoney &#09827; talk 22:01, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) Merge and redirect - the one tidbit will not cause anyone to look at this page. No expansion of the article is likely to occur. -  T&#949;x  &#964;  ur&#949;  18:50, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) Merge and redirect very easy to split it up later when it becomes big enough Mozzerati 22:52, 2004 Nov 11 (UTC)

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