Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gas tax holiday


 * 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. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:09, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Gas tax holiday

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I nominated this article for deletion because of the lack of interest in making the article current and because of Wikipedia policy against news reports as articles (see WP:NOTNEWS). Thatoneguy89 (talk) 01:26, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.  —Thatoneguy89 (talk) 01:26, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 12:52, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. The stated ground is not a good ground for deletion; the subject seems notable enough and there is no deadline. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:25, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Your point is taken about the no effort policy, however I still think this article lacks notability. What this whole article amounts to is a campaign promise that never materialized. Keeping this article is equivalent to saying that any small piece of proposed legislation, despite never being officially debated by congress, is worthy of an encyclopedia article. This article is a news report, and as it says here: "Articles about items in the news are only considered encyclopedic if they are verifiably of significant lasting and historical interest and impact." What historical impact did this news item have? Thatoneguy89 (talk) 16:55, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. Sourced and worthy of some note. Not very interesting but nevermind. • Anakin (talk) 16:41, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep- As a concept its a notable one, worthy of encyclopedic entry. Could and should probably be re-written so that isntead of concentrating on how it was a part of Clinton and McCain's campaigns, it should concentrate on the concept of the gas tax holiday. That said, I agree with the first commenter, that just because it hasn't been worked on doesn't make it non-notable. Umbralcorax (talk) 18:20, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * You are talking about what the article could be, not what it is. If you would like to rewrite it so that it talks about the theory of a gas tax holiday instead of incidental news then I would agree to keep it. However, if you or no one else will do this before the debate is over the article should be deleted and if someone wants to write a proper article in the future they can re-create it. Thatoneguy89 (talk) 19:08, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep hugely notable idiotic policy. A salient issue of the last US pres election. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 19:15, 17 July 2009 (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.