Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solar eclipse of 2017 August 21
This is not a |crystal ball issue because (absent some astronomical catastrophe) this eclipse is going to happen.  There is a question of whether the article is suficiently |notable.  I would argue that ''all'' total solar eclipses are sufficiently rare and interesting enough to be notable, and all will, eventually, have articles as they approach.  Those articles will provide more detail about viewing the particular eclipse and other useful information than may be conviently presented in List of solar eclipses.  It is true that the number of Wikipedians interested in this eclipse (presumably due to the convenience with which they will be able to see the event) have led to this article being created before the articles for Solar eclipse of 2010 July 11, Solar eclipse of 2012 November 12, Solar eclipse of 2015 March 20, or Solar eclipse of 2016 March 9, but the fact that these articles have yet to be created does not reduce the notability of this article, any more than District Courts of India is made less notable by the fact that District Courts of Pakistan has yet to be created
— User:JohnPomeranz, 16:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CRYSTAL||WP:NOTABLE (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)