Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 Minnesota's 6th 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. Clear consensus to keep the page. Further discussion can occur on the article's talk page. (non-admin closure) Enos733 (talk) 05:27, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

2006 Minnesota's 6th congressional district election

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The article fails WP:GNG and WP:SPLIT. Anything notable about this race can be merged into 2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota. KingSkyLord (talk &#124; contribs) 15:38, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Minnesota-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:05, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:05, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:05, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting to determine whether consensus exists to keep the article or merge content into 2006 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota.
 * Merge Content is largely candidate biographies, doesn't need to be separate article. Reywas92Talk 20:04, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep This was actually a pretty high profile race at the time. This was Michele Bachmann's first election were she ran as a fire-brand conservative and really defined her career moving forward. Her opponent was the Patty Wetterling, the mother of Jacob Wetterling who went missing in the district in the late 80's. Patty really made an effort to advocate for missing children and also made it a big part of her campaign. This source from Congressional Quarterly in the article gives a pretty in-depth look of the race at the time. Given that this race happened in 2006 much of the coverage was in newspapers which I managed to find plenty of significant coverage of the race   , including this article from the Washington Post  which covered the race between Patty Wetterling and Michele Bachmann's extensively, along with the issues that were important at the time. George W. Bush even headlined a fundraiser for Bachmann which gave a huge boost to her and her campaign  . Overall the article can definitely be expanded and improved much like 2006 Minnesota's 5th congressional district election's article was recently after a previous AfD. JayJayWhat did I do?  21:05, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per JayJay. Kablammo (talk) 12:02, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge President's in off years especially will campaign at huge numbers of events for candidates from their parties. I am not convinced anything about this election truly stands out, and it is clear we do not have the will to create articles for every election ever, so I think it is in the best interest of having even coverage overall to merge this article to the article on all the congresional elections in California in this year.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:03, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per JayJay, this race received extensive and national coverage, making it an exceptional enough race to deserve a standalone article. Devonian Wombat (talk) 23:20, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge Nothing about this election stands out enough to make WP:SPLIT valid. Should be upmerged into our list of races. SportingFlyer  T · C  15:03, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per JayJay. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:17, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Enos733 (talk) 04:25, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep: The sources provided in the discussion by JayJay is enough to meet WP:GNG. For notability purposes, WP:SPLIT does not matter if WP:GNG is met.It would be nice if someone can incorporate the sources here. ~  Aseleste  (t, e &#124; c, l) 13:48, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep: sources given by JayJay would provide notability per WP:GNG. CommanderWaterford (talk) 19:50, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep, as the sources found demonstrate this pass GNG. --ScorchingElijah (talk) 20:06, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * 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.