Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Assistant Secretary for International Affairs


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The result was delete. Being bold and deleting this article. If someone wishes to mention it in an appropriate article, I'm happy to provide you a copy of the article in your userspace for use. Thanks everyone for your participation and for assuming good faith! Missvain (talk) 18:15, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Assistant Secretary for International Affairs

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This article is vague and poor-quality. Several "Assistant Secretaries for International Affairs" positions exist in the U.S., and until recently, this article only acknowledged the DHS position, and it still conflates at least two different positions in the list of officials. This position also doesn't appear to meet WP:GNG, and even if it does, it should probably be deleted per WP:TNT. --1990&#39;sguy (talk) 16:01, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep According to https://www.dhs.gov/leadership there are several assistant secretaries of homeland security though we don't have articles for any others (but we do for some of the many in other departments). This one falls under the DHS Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans and could be merged there or renamed Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for International Affairs. The article's listed incumbent is the Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs and should be removed. This could become a dab page like Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs to include that one and those in Interior, HUD, and Treasury though we don't have articles for any of them. Agree that these lower positions aren't necessarily notable on their own. Reywas92Talk 21:55, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge the text into its parent office article as above, and convert this one to disambiguator. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:05, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   19:03, 8 January 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Merge or delete?
 * Delete a rather insignificant government job. Absent SIGCOV it is not encyclopedic. Wm335td (talk) 20:21, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge the text into appropriate article. Some of the sourced content is perhaps worth keeping, but I don't think it merits a stand-alone article. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 03:34, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak delete per WP:TNT. It's not a dab page, and it's not substantively useful. If kept, it must have a lot of editing. Bearian (talk) 01:06, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   20:03, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete lacks third party sources to meet GNG. LibStar (talk) 13:40, 21 January 2020 (UTC)


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