Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electoral history of Dennis Kucinich


 * 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. Consensus is that the article is a valid spinout. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:29, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Electoral history of Dennis Kucinich

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Dennis Kucinich has his own article on Wikipedia. The only other people from Ohio who have separate articles on electoral history are William Henry Harrison (U.S. President); Robert Taft (well known US Senator with a memorial to him on Capitol Hill) and John Sherman (congressman and cabinet member). The "electoral history of Dennis Kucinich" article also includes pointless statistics like the Minnesota Independent party caucus, and the Green national Convention in which he got less than one percent of the vote. His Presidential campaigns went nowhere. Thus, his electoral history is no more important than any other former Congressman from any other state. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chagallophile (talk • contribs) 19:59, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:26, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 21:26, 19 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep as a valid WP:SPINOUT. The electoral history of the subject is quite long and overwhelms the main article. I think pages of election results should be seen as similar to pages of award nominations (See List of awards and nominations received by Tom Hanks). --Enos733 (talk) 01:17, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. The relevant criterion for an article like this isn't notability but rather WP:SPINOUT and WP:SIZESPLIT. That is to say, because Kucinich is notable, it's reasonable to have articles about other aspects of his life if discussion of those aspects would be too long to include in his article without it becoming too long. In this case the Dennis Kucinich article is just under 81kB and the electoral history article is just under 19kB, so if the electoral history were restored to the main article it would fall into WP:SIZESPLIT's category of "Probably should be divided", right on the cusp of "Almost certainly should be divided". That being said, WP:INDISCRIMINATE may still require that the electoral history article be cut down somewhat — whether a particular statistic is "pointless" or not is not for us to say, but we could certainly trim most or all of the results that aren't cited to a reliable source. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 17:36, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Per Arms & Hearts. This article is clearly an appropriate WP:SPINOUT. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:24, 26 June 2019 (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.