Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals

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 Closed as SNOW KEEP this disruptive, unwarranted and disrespectful AfD. This page gets thousands of pageviews these days, and all of them are greeted with the message that Wikipedia wants to delete this page now. The AfD goes against deletion policies in any case, as it is clearly a notable event; but to propose it now was very ill judged. Fram (talk) 08:14, 2 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals

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Page is about two football matches that will never be contested. Why having a special page about the finals when there will no finals be contested? All notable content is also at 2016 Copa Sudamericana, the page of the competition. Other info (if there is any), could easily be merged. Sander.v.Ginkel ^(Talk) 16:37, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep As the FInals of a major tournament, they satisfy WP:NFOOTY and WP:SPORTSEVENT even if they were cancelled. See also 1946 FIFA World Cup, which was cancelled as well, but there was enough in reliable sources and notable enough to write an article about it. So the fact that it was (maybe) ultimately cancelled is irrelevant. If it satisfied notability before it was cancelled, it still does. Smartyllama (talk) 17:45, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per WP:NTEMP. This topic was already notable before the plane crash, so it still is now. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 18:57, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This is exactly the kind of event that becomes more notable in cancellation that in actually happening. Agathoclea (talk) 19:33, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - WP:SNOW here - agree with Agathoclea. —Мандичка^YO 😜 21:32, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - as above. --Super Nintendo Chalmers (talk) 22:25, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - agree with Agathoclea Rubyaxles (talk) 22:55, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Conmebol will award the Chapecos the final. ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 00:22, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep - per Smartyllama. Quidster4040 (talk) 03:09, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - in agreement with Smartyllama.  Carl  (talk) 05:49, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - per Agathoclea. I see a consensus emerging here.. Sideshow Bob 07:18, 2 December 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.