Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of election results by country


 * 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   no consensus. Or rather, moot: the article has been substantially changed in title and scope from the nominated version. If still deemed problematic, it would need a new nomination.  Sandstein  14:41, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

List of election results by country

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This list was created in 2010, with the last addition in September 2011. It is nowhere near complete (only ever got as far as American Samoa, which isn't even a country), and more importantly, will not be able to be so as I seem to recall from a long-dead article attempting to display election year templates for every country that Wikipedia articles can only take a certain number of templates, and completing this page would take over 200. Even if they could all load, I'm fairly sure the page would be well over the recommended maximum size. Number  5  7  18:51, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Withdrawn as I've come to an arrangement to change the scope of the list and started work on it. Number  5  7  08:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Partial agreement with Number57. But i propose this be a disambiguation page with links for the latest result per country per continent. In otherwose, this would have links to "List of election results in the Americas", etc. And that page would have the templates transcluded from the latest election in each country. Would be far more useful.Lihaas (talk) 19:01, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * In theory that could work, but for Africa, Asia and Europe you'd have c. 60 templates displaying, which would still be a bit much. Perhaps this article could be renamed "List of latest elections by country" and then be a table as suggested below: Number   5  7  19:15, 9 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree with that. I was going to complete this a long time ago, but I've completely forgotten about it, and probably won't ever get around to it. - Presidentman talk · contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 20:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  Gongshow  Talk 01:03, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  Gongshow  Talk 01:03, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Both are good ideas. Whichever is more feasible should work. I guess we can both add to it. It only need updates for the latest link which shouldnt be hard and similar to the "list of current world leaders"
 * Also what do people think of List of most recent national elections by country or List of most recent national elections by country or List of current national elections by countryLihaas (talk) 12:40, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Er, aren't the first two the same? Anyway, they are preferable to "current", as that suggests elections happening right now. Number   5  7  14:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Woops, meant to remove "most"
 * Should i get the ball rolling with the move?Lihaas (talk) 15:56, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Firstly, an article of the title is obviously something which could have some value. Reading the proposed deletion, it sounds as if the article does need improvement. However, my argument would be that we should improve this list, rather than delete it. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:07, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Think thats what we are working towards. Number57 thinks this title would be wrong as it implies all the election results in a country for 200 countries. (correct me if im wrong). Hence the suggestion to mention the latest ones either by template or link (which is what he suggested in the table above)Lihaas (talk) 08:41, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I did assume this article was for the latest elections (although not named as such). My main concern is that it requires the display of 200+ templates, which isn't possible, hence the suggestion of a simple table linking to the last elections. Number   5  7  08:57, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed on the table. Just the title issue.Lihaas (talk) 19:04, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

":Going ahead with keeping the title and changing to table forma.Lihaas (talk) 11:25, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is an unrealistically broadly defined list. Bearian (talk) 20:53, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * There is an alernative weve agreed to. Remember improvement is not a reason for deletion.Lihaas (talk) 11:25, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * comment close this, the expansion/change is well under way per agreement.Lihaas (talk) 16:37, 15 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:56, 17 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete, this list is unrealistically broad in scope, it would be too much work to keep it up to date. J I P  &#124; Talk 05:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Um, we have a list of oworld leaders in 2012 (and every year) as well as curren world leaders, foreign minisers, ec. Seems well updated.Lihaas (talk) 12:44, 17 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment Needs to be closed as nom has been withdrawn. - Presidentman talk · contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 23:34, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Can't close as withdrawn To close an AfD as withdrawn requires that both the nominator and all delete !votes withdraw, only the nominator has formally withdrawn in this case. If the delete !voters have withdrawn their votes somewhere else, please point out where. Monty  845  20:11, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. The article title now contains the word "recent", so it can safely be deleted per WP:RECENT. Formerip (talk) 12:16, 25 July 2012 (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.