Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electoral history of Barack Obama


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Electoral history of Barack Obama

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The Barack Obama article does not link to this article and the information in this article already is covered by the Barack Obama family of articles. Wikipedia is not a repository of public domain source material. Wikipedia is not a directory. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. -- Suntag  ☼  20:23, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is an established form of article, intended to keep extended election result details out of the main bio articles.  See Category:Electoral history of American politicians for many of examples other articles of this form.  Wasted Time R (talk) 21:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge. This article needs to combined with Barack Obama. Jonathan321 —Preceding undated comment was added at 23:12, 24 October 2008 (UTC).
 * Keep Wasted Time R is right. There is precedent for this sort of article and merging it would inflate the Obama article unneccesarily. - Mgm|(talk) 00:05, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep; we have a precedent for articles like this. Sourced and notable. RockManQ  (talk) 02:51, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep The electoral clutter should stay out of the bio articles and there is no other appropriate place for this content. JakeZ (talk) 06:19, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm fine with this - it's encyclopedic and notable information in the public interest and will continue to be so regardless of the outcome of the election. I assume there is a John McCain equivalent, right? 23skidoo (talk) 03:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, reasonable subarticle, important information. Everyking (talk) 07:40, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per Electoral history of John McCain. Khoikhoi 09:47, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems like a fine article in Category:Electoral history of American politicians. The Barack Obama article *does* link to this article, as do many other articles. If absolutely necessary, it could be merged with Barack Obama, so deletion is not an option. --Pixelface (talk) 09:52, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


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