Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Broxbourne Council election, 2014


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The result was   delete. v/r - TP 16:17, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Broxbourne Council election, 2014

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Disputed prod. An article which provides no information at all above that of the 2012 article for an event that's two years away with a purely speculative guess (and an unverifiable one at that) at who will be standing at that point in the future and when it will actually be held. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:18, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete - This seems nothing more than a place-holder for a regular election that is likely to happen in two years time, in the wards listed, but has not been talked about in any meaningful way. Therefore fails WP:GNG and meets WP:TOOSOON. Sionk (talk) 10:51, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Grossly premature. The government is encouraging a reduction the number of councillors, which will inevitably result in re-warding, so that we cannot even be sure that the wards named will be the ones for which an election will take place next time.  Peterkingiron (talk) 11:13, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Still delete -- I was contacted on my talk page with the suggestion that as a reduction in the number of councillors had already occured. That does not howerver remove my basic objection that the article is premature.  Peterkingiron (talk) 11:05, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - Can't find anything beyond trivial mentions, so fails WP:GNG. And in view of potential ward changes, the current article could be grossly incorrect.--A bit iffy (talk) 11:29, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Retain - I am slightly biased as author of the article (& the other pages on Broxbournes electoral history) and I have to say that some of the objections raised above are, to some extent uninformed. Broxbourne Council was fully rewarded in 2012 by the LGBCE and accordingly the number of wards was reduced from 13 to 10 and the number of Councillors reduced from 38 to 30. It is absolutely certain that the wards named will be refought in 2014 under their current boundaries. Similarly the Councillors named in the articles table are scheduled to retire in 2014 - this is fully verifiable. Their retirement in 2014 is based on the fact they received the smallest number of votes of the the 3 winning candidates in their respective wards in the 2012 election. I consider that it is entirely appropriate to include this page at this time to indicate verifiable information regarding a future election that will take place.  Richard Clemerson
 * In all honesty, if you're trying to state that a future election will take place, couldn't you do that with a single line in the 2012 article (that one is scheduled but the date is unknown/subject to change)? Oh, it already is.... The Rambling Man (talk) 09:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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