Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Recession of 2008
but possible '''merge''' as I'll get to in a moment) as premature because those sources are still speculating. A recession doesn't occur until an official announcement of same is made. However, before deleting I recommend checking to see if the sources can be added to another article as I do believe there is already an article on the economic uncertainty. A subsection of that article saying "Media speculation in January-February 2008 is rife that a recession had begun" would be appropriate. I've read opinion that the recession started last fall, too, so to say it started in January 2008 actually borders on POV and OR. And there's already one media source (CNN Headline News' commentator Glenn Beck) on record speculating this could actually end up being a depression. So to label it a recession is probably premature at this stage which would then bring in 
— User:23skidoo, 15:15, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:CRYSTAL (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)