Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Predictions for the forthcoming year

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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 ambiguous. Votes to delete and to keep (in various forms) were about even. The decision defaults to keep.

Reviewing the votes and the current content, I concluded that the solution recommended late in the discussion (merge into Futurology) made the most sense for now. Redirecting. Rossami (talk) 05:29, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Predictions for the forthcoming year

 * Predictions are already in 2005 page. The page doesn't really make much sense, and doesn't really say anything noteworthy. There is no actual predicitions listed, merely a discussion that some people make predictions. Astrotrain 13:39, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Divination
 * Comment: User:LeeHunter forgot to sign . dbenbenn | talk 00:32, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Would say Delete due to it is a phenomena which isnt really notable and highly abstract. Some media outlets do this, but certainly not all. Inter 15:02, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * This page was originally Predictions for 2005. Uncle G 15:13, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)
 * Delete. --RoySmith 16:03, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as a real, and rather odd, part of media culture. I think the article needs to clarify the difference between educated-guess-type predictions ("Band X will release a new album and it will be a huge hit") as opposed to psychic-type predictions, aliens will land, etc. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  16:42, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete until someone manages to say something noteworthy on the topic, this is just "many people make predictions for the new year, they are often wrong". That's not a decent basis for an article. --fvw *  17:54, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)
 * Keep for now, expand in realtion to possible reasons for the phenomena. It is certainly notable, and this article has the potential to be a great resource on teh history of it, what sort of people/groups do it, etc. You never know, with a bit of work it might make it to be the featured article for 2005/6 new years eve/day. Thryduulf 18:22, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yes, Thruduulf, but that sounds like original research, unless you know of someone who has actually written on this subject whose findings can be reported.  Better to delete it.   --BM 21:46, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep, a part of every culture but the article itself needs to be rewritten and clarified. Megan1967 01:47, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete kaal 02:22, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with futurology! This content, awkwardly titled, fits there like a glove. Samaritan 07:40, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge'n'Redirect to futurology. Good call. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 09:03, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

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