Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States presidential election, 2024
due to requests for more information: There ''were'' policy based reasons argued here for '''both''' keeping ''and'' deleting the article; and in their most quintessential manner those arguments manifested as a differentiation of one's personal understanding of . And, neither side was able to produce an unquestionable delineation of that policy, yet there were over 28 days of continuous discussion allowed between the two sides. This, to any reasonable man, would appear to identify two things: '''1.''' that there is a much bigger issue at hand, and '''2.''' in light of this, an unambiguous comprehension of the community's consensus cannot possibly be ascertained justly by this isolated, unannounced - at least to the scale necessary in this case - inquiry, (as is noted in our deletion policy: ''"Outcomes should reflect the Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators#Rough consensus|rough consensus reached in the deletion discussion and Wikipedia:Consensus#Level of consensus|community consensus on a wider scale. (While Wikipedia:Consensus#Consensus can change|consensus can change, consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale.)"'')... but instead must be found by a larger examination of the matter by the whole community via a discussion (recommended action would be a RFC) of . After such a discussion is held, and a clear determination is made as to what is '''precisely''' seen as "too far into the future" to be retained on the encyclopedia, an administrator would potentially be able to place more weight to one side of this debate over the other. Until then, it ''would'' be a "supervote" for an administrator to make a dichotomized judgement on this AFD. - Now I'm sure this decision (or, more accurately, non-decision) does not make everyone happy, as it's not a solution to everyone's concerns. But, I feel that it would be completely unjust, and rash, of me to instead act in a supposititious manner on what is currently quite a contentious topic. &mdash
— User:Coffee, 16:09, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:CRYSTAL||WP:CRYSTAL (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)