Wikipedia talk:Plus-one

United States elections
We know that there will be an election in 2008. We know that the position of President will be up for election. We know that George W. Bush will no longer be president, and we can assume that either John McCain or Barack Obama will be. More than that, we do not know and cannot cover.

On the other hand, nobody knows what will happen come the same elections in 2012 or 2016. Hence, we have some coverage of the status quo, plus one future election.

Olympic Games
The schedule for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing is in planning. Some of the venues are complete, and work on completing the rest is well under way. We know that the 2012 Games will be in London, and a good deal of the transport infrastructure work is done (including the Jubilee Line extension, improvements to Stratford station, and a large part of High Speed 1). Budget concerns are already surfacing, and Tessa Jowell's head has been placed above the parapet several times already.

The IOC is expected to decide the venue of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in July 2007. We're already down to the final stages, and there are three candidate cities. But that's about as far as we know. Beyond that, we're speculating on who is bidding, or even who might be bidding. Speculation on the bidding isn't really widely reported besides the possibilities for 2016, given the bids will not be presented until the time of the 2008 Games in Beijing. We also can't really say anything useful about 2018, 2020, 2022, etc. (WP:NOT uses 2032 as one of its case studies).

So, we should keep it to the Summer Games approaching, plus one each way thereafter. ~EdGl  &#9733;  02:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)