Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electoral history of Jon Tester


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  17:23, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Electoral history of Jon Tester

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On what basis do we have a separate article here? All of this would fit in the main article, and it is unlikely that anyone would be interested in one but not the other. Attempting to get two articles when one would do is confusing and unhelpful. I am aware we have a 0onumner of other articles of the type--it's time we stopped the practice, because the electoral history is basic contents for the bio.  DGG ( talk ) 09:16, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I see no point in a redirect: anyone doing a search is going to use the subject's name and he has his own WP page. There's nothing special or unusual about his electoral history, compared to any other politician. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 10:47, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Speedily. --Mr.Exicornt (talk) 10:50, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Struck out vote by perma-blocked sockpuppet. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 12:54, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. MT TrainDiscuss 13:38, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Montana-related deletion discussions. MT TrainDiscuss 13:38, 2 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete I'd say merge, but there's not much there. The electoral results are fine as information on the main article. South Nashua (talk) 14:14, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Pages like this have been permitted for a very rarefied tier of politicians at the top level of notability, such as presidents or prime ministers or other especially long-serving senior figures who have exceptionally long biographical articles that need special treatment for size control purposes. Most politicians below the top level, however, simply have their electoral histories addressed in their main biographical article rather than being spun off into a standalone article in its own right — and Tester's BLP is not exceptionally long. That said, requires a review for whether every article in there is actually warranted or not, because on a random spotcheck I've found several other instances of these articles existing for politicians who do not need them, such as Bob Dettmer and Tom Emmer and Fred F. Steen II. (I've already merged Dettmer's and Steen's back into the BLPs, but not Emmer's.) And I agree that maybe we should end this practice entirely, and instead just keep all results tables in the main BLPs, precisely because people seem to misinterpret their permissibility in some isolated special cases as a standard consensus that every politician should always have one — if there's a size issue, we can just make the tables collapsible instead of spinning them off to separate pages. Bearcat (talk) 23:27, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete just plain not worth having a seperate article. I would support deletions for any and all articles on members of the US congress, even for exceptionally long served members like John Conyers, who has been in over 50 years and thus elected over 25 times. Also, I do not think the specific results of the State Senate races, and even more so the state senate primnaries, are worth noting at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:30, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete provided that the information is added to Tester's page in a collapsible box. Davey2116 (talk) 18:14, 5 December 2017 (UTC)


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