Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Next Conservative Party leadership election


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. If an editor wants to work on this article in Draft space, let me know or go to WP:REFUND. Liz Read! Talk! 00:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Next Conservative Party leadership election

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WP:TOOSOON. This article is based off of early highly-speculative articles for an election that is entirely WP:Crystal Ball at this moment. It is also written with the presumption that the next leadership election will be to succeed Sunak. Likely, but that would be entirely presumptuous and WP:Crystal Ball given it is not an impossibility that the party’s next leadership election sees Sunak seek to remain leader while facing a challenger, as Thatcher did in both 1989 and 1990 (and Labour’s Kinnock did in 1988). Should be either deleted or draftified. SecretName101 (talk) 00:39, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and United Kingdom. SecretName101 (talk) 00:39, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  01:10, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete or draftify. I agree this is too soon. We don't need to wait until there is actually a leadership contest formally announced, but we do need to wait until we're doing more than regurgitating speculation in 1-2 sources. Thryduulf (talk) 10:27, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:CRYSTAL. Bastun Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 10:57, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * delete per WP:toosoon also this would need a dab specifying it's about the uk tories—blindlynx 23:04, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Looking for sources using news searches, the results from Bing gave me 6 on-point sources, two of which were unreliable tabloid newspapers, and the other 4 of which say "likely to be", "are considering", and "are prepared to". They in fact all cite one single newspaper report as their common source.  Amd that further, 7th, source turns out to say that an anonymous person "believed" that something was "about to" happen.  So basically this entire article comes off one source, with other sources just reporting the report, and that source never reported an actual factual event happening in the first place.  This is unverifiable.  I'd say restore the prior redirect, but that was the result of a page move in 2022, and "next" no longer means "2022" now.  Delete. Uncle G (talk) 17:21, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete fails to satisfy conditions in WP:CRYSTAL necessary for articles about future events. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 00:23, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:TOOSOON. No sense in having this article based solely on speculative news articles, better to wait until there's an actual impending leadership contest. Gazamp (talk) 00:43, 6 November 2023 (UTC)


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