Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chicago Democratic Machine

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was no consensus. Tony Sidaway|Talk 13:14, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Chicago Democratic Machine
Ordinarily, I don't favor the deletion of topics that deserve articles. But this article has literally no content--the full text is "The Chicago Democratic Machine is a well known example of machine politics.", plus a few see alsos. In addition, the see alsos are themselves dubious--for example, Mike Madigan gets only 23 Google hits for "Mike Madigan" "Chicago Democratic Machine" (compare 7000 for "Mike Madigan" +Illinois). In short, this article has no content--WP would be better served by a red-link unless this is severely expanded, and I don't have the knowledge to do that. Meelar (talk) 21:40, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)


 * Would go better with actual content, and a title along the lines of History of the Democratic Party in Chicago or suchlike. Merge to machine politics for preference, but if significant new content appears, retitle & keep. Slac speak up!  23:48, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Slac's title is better as being less POV. Important topic but poor article and NPOV make it improper as an article topic but could serve as redirect to main page. Capitalistroadster 03:43, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Isn't this more commonly known as the Cook County political machine? Neutralitytalk 06:27, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.