Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delhi Legislative Assembly bypolls, 2018

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:36, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Delhi Legislative Assembly bypolls, 2018

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No Bypolls Editmanz 16:51, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

• Delete Nomination is correct; the by-elections were cancelled.[1] Number 57 11:37, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
• Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 September 29. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 11:44, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:51, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

• Delete This is never happening. Good find. More reasons why WP:FUTURE must be strictly followed. Such articles should not be created before the action has actually happened. cuz it may never happen as it was in this case. --DBigXrayᗙ 13:55, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
  • It's not though; it's completely reasonable to create an article when a noteworthy election is scheduled – if it's cancelled (as happened here), we can simply delete it. The alternative is not to have any articles on elections until the day voting takes place, which would be absurd. Number 57 15:03, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

• Although this is off topic as far as this AfD is concerned, but User:Number 57 please note the election was never scheduled. EC recommended disqualification and matter was settled in the court. the author clearly jumped the gun here. regards. --DBigXrayᗙ 15:11, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

• Fair point re the scheduling. However, the "such articles should not be created before the action has actually happened" line still isn't applicable to normal election cycles (as opposed to by-elections), as it's always assumed that the next election will take place, hence why we have so many articles in Category:Future elections in Europe etc. Number 57 15:21, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

• I see. If this is the precedent followed in the election articles then I can understand why this article was created. Still in my humble opinion, the declaration of the election should be the minimum requisite to create such an article. Thanks for sharing your kind thoughts. regards. --DBigXrayᗙ 15:39, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

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