Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2018 in the world

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The result was speedy redirect to 2018. page creator redirected, and is doing something different at 2018 in politics and government (non-admin closure) power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:32, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2018 in the world

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WP:CFORK of numerous other pages, most blatantly 2018. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:54, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• KEEP. Article fulfils valuable role as a timeline of 2018, in compiling and providing overview of notable world events in 2018. --Sm8900 (talk) 05:08, 19 November 2018 (UTC) comment withdrawn.[reply]

  2018 also does this. What does your article do that 2018 doesn't? ♫ekips39 (talk)❀ 05:22, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  excellent question, thanks. the article 2018 in the world specifically focuses upon items that are important to world affairs specifically, according to a set of specific topical areas. it is possible that perhaps the entry should be renamed with a more informative title to make this more clear, such as "2018 in the world by topic," or "2018 in world affairs," to make this more clear.

basically the intent was to construct a timeline of 2018 for the world, that would focus less on individual news items, and focus more and mainly on actual events within world diplomacy, banking, etc., in contrast to the 2018 article, which is worthwhile precisely because it includes numerous specific events such as sporting events, individual incidents, attacks, etc. again, perhaps the article "2018 in the world" should be renamed to to make this more clear. --Sm8900 (talk) 05:29, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. I agree this article is a redundant subset of 2018. I'm trying to understand the argument for moving put forth by User:Sm8900, but I don't think that "world affairs" is a very useful descriptor. It could be argued that all the events on 2018 are already world affairs. On the "2018 by topic" front, we already have tons of articles that comprise "2018 by topic" as listed in this navbox. We are lacking a 2018 in international relations page, but I think a move would be inappropriate because the scope of the current article is much larger. BenKuykendall (talk) 07:55, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Concur by author. hmm, good points. I have some ideas on an alternate approach. I will delete this article and give it some more thought. thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 14:55, 19 November 2018 (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.