Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milton Keynes Council election, 2012


 * 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. A more general RfC on more such articles might be usefull, but that is beyond the scope of Articles for Deletion. There is not enough discussion here to close as keep, though the discussion does lean in that direction. Relisting when there is a preference to solve the broader issue trough an RfC is not of any use either. For now, there is no consensus on how to handle these kind of articles in general, nor is there consensus in this particular case. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:00, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Milton Keynes Council election, 2012

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Not notable Future event No sources Zzaffuto118 (talk) 19:08, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:13, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 19:13, 5 January 2012 (UTC)


 * There was a discussion about 2012 council election articles at the wikiproject here - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom/Archive 3 and an AFD of a very similar article last month here - Articles for deletion/Crawley Council election, 2012. Davewild (talk) 20:32, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: that AfD last month was closed as no consensus (or some moral equivalent of that). My opinion notwithstanding, it's unlikely that this AfD will result in deleting since the arguments for keeping are increasingly pertinent as the election nears. Also I fully agree with DGG who wrote in that previous AfD: "this needs an rfc, not a debate on an isolated article". Pichpich (talk) 23:26, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment. I don't think it makes sense to delete an article on a future election when 1) we know for certain that it's going to happen, and 2) it's less than a year away. I personally think stats this detailed are better placed in Wikisource, but for some reason that data is expressly excluded from Wikisource. Whilst Wikipedia's not a great place to put info on very local election results, I'm hesitant to advocate deleting what is possibly the only online source of the information. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 20:43, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Close until an RfC about all these type of articles has been concluded. This should be a keep based on a notable upcoming event that is easily referenced. Easily passes WP:CRYSTAL.  Lugnuts  (talk) 08:03, 6 January 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.