Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

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 redirect to Major League Baseball All-Star Game. —Darkwind (talk) 03:07, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

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WP:TOOSOON — it is way too soon to create this article. The 2015 All-Star Game happens in about a month, and 2016 is usually acceptable since it is a almost a year a way, but three years away doesn't usually happen quite yet. No need to rush it. Corky | Chat? 02:04, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep:

All of the details about the 2018 ASG are confirmed and we know the game was awarded to the Nationals.
The article is eventually going to go up anyways. VegasCasinoKid (talk) 02:34, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect: I believe that a redirect of the page to List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game venues - List by Year would be a decent solution under Redirects for discussion - Keep, Section 3 as it will aid someone in finding the game without hassle. Though I would also suggest the page be given details once the logo of the game is released. TheGRVOfLightning (talk) 08:14, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:17, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Too soon for its own article. Spanneraol (talk) 15:33, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game venues. That is a better target since it includes the information that is already known about the 2018 game. 16:05, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Keep. We know where it's taking place and it's confirmed with MLB. 21:09, 26 May 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.239.63.5 (talk)
I'm fine with a redirect. Just because it is confirmed, doesn't mean there are enough sources for it to be a stand-alone article. Corky | Chat? 22:20, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - Seriously, we're creating articles for the MLB All-Star Game three years in advance? Somebody please explain how we do things here to the article creator. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:20, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Game has been awarded and page was created. Might as well just keep it so that additional info. can be easily added. - Bbny-wiki-editor (talk) 17:28, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bbny, with a conversion to a redirect all of the existing content is preserved in the edit history and can simply be restored by reverting the edit which converts the article into a redirect, when it's appropriate. No reason to keep this; it's premature and there is nothing encyclopedic about it beyond the game's location and date, which can be listed in the main parent article. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:39, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Major League Baseball All-Star Game. It's way too early to create an article like this. Ashbeckjonathan (talk) 15:51, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep~~. I've noticed that future annual events such as this become notable once the venue is announced. This is when the city/team can start preparing for the game and enough can then be written about the game. There are several national (no pun intended) sources that discuss the game so sourcing shouldn't be a problem, including ESPN, CBS Sports, Yahoo! Sports, USA Today, etc. Tavix | Talk 15:58, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Tavix: All of which can be easily handled as part of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game parent article. Having a 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game article -- more than three years before it is played, is just goofy. It is essentially a blank form that only includes the date and location of the game. Please note that WP:GNG states the significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources creates a presumption of notability and suitability of including a stand-alone article; it is not, however, a guarantee, and editors may decide that that the specific subject is better covered as part of another article. The 2017 and 2018 MLB All-Star Game articles fall into the latter category, especially when these two articles can be simply converted to redirects for the time being, and then reconverted to stand-alone articles when the time is appropriate. Nothing is lost, and no one has to look at a blank form article with very little encyclopedic content until the time is right to build it out. And for the record, the articles to which you linked are all arguably routine coverage of an event announcement per WP:ROUTINE. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:23, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Changing !vote to redirect due to our compromised solution discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Tavix | Talk 17:52, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the example of what Tavix and I were discussing -- to be inserted in the parent article or list of article:

Future MLB All-Star Games

Does anyone else have any suggestions? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:02, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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.