Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States Senate special election in Illinois, 2009


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The result was   delete. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  00:07, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

United States Senate special election in Illinois, 2009

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Legislature failed to change the law to allow this election. Chances of this election happening are now very slim. If, somehow, the law does get changed and the whole Blago/Burris mess gets changed to a special election after all, THEN this article can be recreated. But right now it's gone from being slightly speculative to a violation of WP:Crystal.—Markles 14:50, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 00:10, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 00:10, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete With two democratic majority houses in the Illinois General Assembly and a democratic Governor/Lt. Governor combo, this was never going to happen. The Dems will nominate people until someone gets approved.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:28, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree that the legislature is unlikely to switch to a special election for the Senate seat.DCmacnut &lt; &gt; 16:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect As creator of the article, I think that the information in it is still valid, given that there was at least one allegedly-registered candidate for such an election and that this was in major news outlets for the last month or so. It should be redirected to a relevant article and made a section until further notice. --Toussaint (talk) 20:06, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * How about redirecting to Roland Burris or Rod Blagojevich?—Markles 00:46, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete There may still be a special election; Pat Quinn wants a short term appointment and special election. For now, though, there is no special election on the horizon and no article for which this one would be an obvious redirect. -Rrius (talk) 02:32, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete There is no law allowing such an election. If such a law is passed, the article can be recreated. Otherwise it is crystal-ball speculation. Edison (talk) 03:41, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: There is no special election, as of now, too crystal-bally for WP. If it happens, which seems more likely today than it did before the Burris appointment, then it can be recreated at that point in time. --IvoShandor (talk) 09:30, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The article should now be rewritten a little, but it can still deal with the discussions over whether there was to be such an election. DGG (talk) 06:48, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Any discussion of whether Illinois should have a special election belongs at any or all of Rod Blagojevich corruption charges, Governor of Illinois, Elections in Illinois, or United States Senate. What purpose would be served by leaving the discussion in a separate article? Why would the discussion hold the name ending in ", 2009"? -Rrius (talk) 07:16, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete IL legislature voted against special election; recreate if that changes. Discussion belongs somewhere else. Reywas92 Talk  20:32, 4 January 2009 (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.