Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2014 in Illinois

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. No consensus whether also to redirect, but anybody may create a redirect. Sandstein 11:07, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2014 in Illinois[edit]

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Redundant to 2014 in the United States. No other years have an "in Illinois" article. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 18:05, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - The concept is not bad, the execution leaves room for improvement. My sense is that this is an encyclopedic topic. Just because it is the first state level timeline does not mean that it is necessarily a wrong path. Carrite (talk) 19:25, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:53, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Are there are any other pages similar to this list? The page could use more sources but I like the idea. Meatsgains (talk) 02:09, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment and reluctant delete: I published the page originally, however, I lost interest in the project. I still think it would be a good idea to have state-based year articles, especially for the more populated regions (California, New York, Texas, ect...). It was mostly just me contributing, so I feel there was a lack of interest at the time. Also, being the only one contributing can be overwhelming. That could change in the future though and I may get back to creating state-based year articles if I feel inspired and committed to do so again. (Tigerghost (talk) 08:47, 20 May 2016 (UTC)).[reply]
While the United States, in particular, is large enough that by-state splitouts could be justified by the sheer scope of possible content for the by-country level, I'd be more convinced that this should exist if there were a consensus to move in that direction and a commitment to getting as many as possible of them done in a timely manner — if there's nobody else working on creating and populating these kind of pages in a more comprehensive manner, then I don't see the value in this one existing in isolation. Redirect to 2014 in the United States, without prejudice against recreation in the future if there's a consensus to move in that direction and a genuine commitment to getting it done. Bearcat (talk) 18:32, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as a likely search but not convincing for its own article though. SwisterTwister talk 05:47, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – Qualifies for an article per WP:NOTDUP relative to Category:2014 in Illinois and subcategories therein. Also qualifies as a functional navigational aid per WP:LISTPURP. Also, this article is certainly not redundant to the 2014 in the United States article, because many entries in this article are not present in the latter article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:11, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anything in this article could easily be added to that article, however — so the redundancy or lack thereof is not a question of whether or not the content is already duplicated, but of whether or not there's a substantive reason why the fork is necessary. If this were being done more comprehensively, I'd have no objection to keeping — but I can't think of any good reason why this is "special" enough to stand alone as the only year-state subpage that exists for any state in any year. Bearcat (talk) 16:40, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, st170e^talk 21:16, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. --Cameron11598 ^(Talk) 04:15, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Nice try, but there does not seem to be any move to develop year-by-year articles about the various states of the United States. (I couldn't find any.) Without any tradition of such articles and no sign anyone is going to develop them, there is no point in having just this one. And I don't see any point in a redirect; anyone looking for "2014 in (state)" and not finding it is automatically going to go to "2014 in the United States." --MelanieN (talk) 17:31, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.