Deletion of 2003 in Afghanistan

Comment: This is called a chronicle which is a valid type of history keeping. The problem is lack of sources, which will become increasingly difficult to find as time goes by and sources drop offline (10 years is already very long). What will happen is eventually someone will begin deleting line by line for lack of sources, which is permissible under . It will then become a useless stub and then AfD a final salute. However since this is the first AfD I can't in good conscious recommend a delete. Assuming it closes Keep, one suggestion is try deleting a whole month as unsourced and see if anyone shows up to complain, and then push them to add sources using inline fact tags and contesting "I don't believe this event actually happened". That's the conventional weapons approach, better than the AfD nuclear weapon as an opening salvo
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)

Comment: There is a |longstanding consensus at AfD to keep year-long (annual) chronicles, as long as they have at least two or three significant historical events listed therein.  In a few cases, we have deleted ''future'' years' articles, because they were filled with speculation, only to re-create the article; see ''e.g.'', 2014 in Ireland.  In other cases, for less momentous years, we have redirected or merged them into a single century; see ''e.g.'',Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/226 in Ireland.  We have often deleted articles, such as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2013 NATO helicopter crash in Afghanistan, when a |redirect or merge would have been cheap.  There is 2012 in Afghanistan and a whole slew of related articles by year.  If we were to delete this one, and yet keep the others, it would make no sense -- I can't think of a ''less'' momentous year for Afghanistan than 2003! To delete this would require a clear and convincing evidence or argument to |change long-established consensus
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:OUTCOMES||WP:CHEAP||WP:CCC)