Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 Georgia's 4th congressional district election


 * 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 keep. The issue centering on notability appears to have a consensus that the contemporaneous national coverage and the ongoing historical implications pull in that direction too. Conversation as it relates to renaming or reframing to focus more or less on the primary or general can continue outside the context of AFD.  Go  Phightins  !  11:54, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

2006 Georgia's 4th congressional district election

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:SPLIT. This article covers a race for a safe Democratic seat, so there's no special notability for this story. Anything superfluous can be merged to the articles of the candidates involved. Love of Corey (talk) 13:49, 2 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment - I'll also have to point out for transparency's sake that this article had been bundled into an earlier AfD, which was closed as keep. Love of Corey (talk) 13:49, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:22, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:23, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:23, 2 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep While a safe seat, the bulk of the article is about the relatively interesting primary and run-off, which looks like it received national coverage. GNG is met, and while we would typically delete or merge these sorts of articles I think there's enough there that deleting the article would make the encyclopaedia worse. SportingFlyer  T · C  14:55, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - As SportingFlyer has said, there is enough interesting coverage of the primary to warrant an article here. ƒirefly  ( t · c ) 21:20, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment - Considering the votes as of late have prominently mentioned the notability of the race's Democratic primary, I will suggest an alternative solution should the article be kept: rename the article to reflect the fact that it is talking about the Democratic primary, not the overall election, per 2010 United States Senate Democratic primary election in Pennsylvania. I think it would be misleading if the article title points to a topic about the overall congressional race when it'll mostly talk about the Democratic primary. Love of Corey (talk) 02:37, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I support that - the primary is part of this overall election. SportingFlyer  T · C  21:15, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
 * But the article mostly talks about the primary, while the general is more of an aftermath-like section. Love of Corey (talk) 00:27, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * The article you linked to was a WP:SPLIT. The primary and general are best covered in one article here due to the length of content. SportingFlyer  T · C  01:38, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't the information on the general be expanded, then? Love of Corey (talk) 03:55, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I mean, there's nothing stopping anyone, but none of that has anything to do with deletion. SportingFlyer  T · C  14:43, 7 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep This seems to be a definite keep. The primary involved what would turn out to be two long-serving U.S. House members, one of whom had already achieved above-average prominence and infamy at the time of the primary. The primary election was heavily covered in the national media and was not just a locally watched race. Go4thProsper (talk) 04:35, 7 March 2021 (UTC)


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