Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/First Family of the United States (2nd nomination)


 * 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, with strong reccomendation to clean up as discussed. Davewild (talk) 12:16, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

First Family of the United States
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This article basically consists of a reiteration of biographical details of family members of a few recent presidents of the United States, with a couple of sentences about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington's families too. This information can be found in the articles about the respective presidents and/or their relatives, making this article both redundant as to the presidents covered and incomplete as to the 32 other presidents. The article has been tagged for cleanup for almost two years (since February 2006) but is still written in a somewhat juvenile style, with frequent uses of such titles as "First Son" and "First Granddaughter" which are implied to be official titles; Chelsea Clinton is described as having been "born a First Daughter of Arkansas" and it is claimed that "the two-year period between her father's first and second terms as governor would be the only time when she did not have an official title" until 2001. This article hasn't gotten much better since the last time it was nominated for deletion, also in February 2006, and I don't see much hope for it. I recommend that the article be deleted, possibly followed by a redirect to List of children of the Presidents of the United States or something like that. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:15, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment In present form this is something between an essay and a list. But there are aspects of the President's family that could make up an article, such as Secret Service protection, or media attention on immediate or even non-immediate relatives. --Dhartung | Talk 17:22, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with above comment. It's not great in its current state, but is definitely a worthy topic. Regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:30, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with above comment. A worthy topic, the article can be improved. Canadian Monkey (talk) 05:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


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