Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/May 2023 Pakistan by-elections

:The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. The nomination statement didn't provide a clear reason for deletion in the first place, and other participants pointed that out. (non-admin closure) Actualcpscm scrutinize, talk 21:00, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

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No election held on 28 May nor after Panam2014 (talk) 19:32, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

  • Keep for the same reason cancelled video games also have articles/sections, anything that was planned but didn't happen (as long as it's properly sourced) has an article/section. Being a cancelled election could probably be reflected in the title somehow or the article's contents be merged someplace, but just because it got cancelled doesn't magically mean erase the validity of the content. This nomination is throwing the baby out with the bathwater basically.—Mythdon (talkcontribs) 20:09, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
  • Keep as per Mythdon's reasoning. IncompA 20:37, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, Politics, and Pakistan. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 20:55, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
  • :Why not merging into 2023 Pakistani parliamentary crisis? Panam2014 (talk) 21:15, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
  • Keep - I would agree to Panam2014's proposal as a fallback, but I think there is plenty here to justify a separate article. Something not happening due to crises or simple cancellation has never been a valid cause for deletion, especially where there is reasonable, sustained, non-local coverage (all of which are shown by the cites). As an extreme example, The world completely failed to end in 2012, but we still have a superb ~130kb article on it. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 17:01, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

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: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.