Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electoral history of Hansen Clarke


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The result was merge to Hansen Clarke. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 06:00, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Electoral history of Hansen Clarke

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Highly unnecessary WP:CONTENTFORK KidAd   talk  02:31, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Engr.  Smitty   Werben 03:28, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Engr.  Smitty   Werben 03:28, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
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 * Merge/redirect to Hansen_Clarke. WP:BOLD merge would have been fine here. Reywas92Talk 09:29, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge back into parent article Agricolae (talk) 15:50, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge back into parent article. "Electoral history of X" articles are not routinely done for just every politician who exists — they're permitted for heads of state or government (presidents, prime ministers) or other extremely long-serving figures whose articles need spinouts for size management purposes, but below that level a politician's electoral history is addressed in the biographical article rather than being spun off as a subpage. Hansen Clarke's WP:BLP is not long enough to need the spinoff, however. Bearcat (talk) 16:41, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge back but prune. I assume we have articles on the various elections.  It should be sufficient to have a simple list of the elections in which he participated (linking to the election article), with a result and brief details.  Election results boxes take up a lot of space and unbalance bio-articles.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:24, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge to article on Hansen Clarke. If we are going to create electoral histories for every person who ever served in the US house, which is what this one existing would require since Clarke only served one term, we are going to create lots of unneeded articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:57, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - per Bearcat's reasoning, but no redirect, more per JPL's reasoning (bad precedent - those thousands of articles that don't need this FORK also don't need an indexing redirect). 174.254.193.249 (talk) 00:11, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
 * On leaving a redirect after merging, the purpose is not to create an indexing entry but to maintain attribution edit history per our CC BY-SA 3.0 License. See R from merge. 24.151.121.140 (talk) 16:54, 30 December 2020 (UTC)


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