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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 01:26, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
2026 Ottawa municipal election
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After a quick Google search, I could find any information about the 2026 Ottawa municipal election except the date. This may be a case of WP:TOOSOON. Happy to keep it up if someone can find more information, though. Significa liberdade ( talk) 01:53, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
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WP:FUTURE. This is three years away, and only mentions the incumbent mayor is up for re-election. So far, it looks like an advance ad for "...Re-elect Mayor..." However, flipping backwards through the older Ottawa municipal elections, their Wikipedia articles were set up years in advance. Don't know how they weren't challenged, since I've seen "future" US election pages immediately put up for deletion. Do we have a standardized guideline for future elections? If not, we should. However, allowing this serves to be an advance promotion for whoever is running.
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02:29, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
- While I agree this article's creation is too early, I'm not sure what you are talking about. Most past Ottawa elections were created maybe one year in advance, and that's only because that is when candidates start discussing possibly running. Not too long ago candidates could file as early as January. Now, there is only one election article (2010) that was created years in advance (by me, guilty as charged!), but that was because there was already some polling.-- Earl Andrew - talk 00:51, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:30, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 06:30, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
- Delete per nom – WP:TOOSOON. Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk 01:06, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
- Delete, obviously without prejudice against recreation in late 2025 or early 2026 once there starts to be actual stuff to say (and, even more importantly, reliably source) about it. At the federal and provincial/state levels, we have a tendency of allowing "upcoming future election" articles to exist fairly early in the cycle, in part because it's possible to track ongoing public opinion polling on the performance of the incumbent government, content about political issues or scandals that impact the government's evolving prospects of reelection, party leadership changes, and other things like that which build context — plus, in a minority government situation like Canada's in right now, the next election could literally be called at practically any time, so something has to be ready to go on the snap — but at the municipal level there's far less value in jumping the gun this early, because it'll be at least two years before there's any meaningful content to be added at all beyond "this is a thing that will (probably) happen, the end". Bearcat ( talk) 13:50, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
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