Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George W. Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina

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The result of the debate was MERGE with one of several suggested articles. moink 05:46, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

George W. Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina
Unless this can be brought to a higher standard, and if there is any way of keeping it NPV, it is not something for Wikipedia Donovan Ravenhull 14:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've looked over the new version, and I still don't see it being a valid wikipedia article.  If it were expanded vastly and turned into Hurricane Katrina Timeline, maybe, but not as it is.  And if you are wondering, I am no G W Bush fan, registered Democrat even, but this article does not seem necessary in its current form. Donovan Ravenhull 10:56, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Is there a Vote to Rename or such avialable? Turning this into the above mentioned Timeline of... might be better than deletion. Donovan Ravenhull 11:31, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Changing to Merge now that I see that there is a Timeline of Hurricane Katrina already. Donovan Ravenhull 11:41, 8 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Abstain for now, but will watch. This strikes me as ripe for skewing any way you want it, but I could be wrong.  Also not sure it needs to stand alone as its own article.  And what do we mean by response?  Verbal response?  Financial response?  Behind-the-scenes of giving orders, which one could never know?  Opens a can of worms.    paul klenk 14:34, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Also watching. I don't see that this article is very useful as is.  Possibly merge into Political_effects_of_Hurricane_Katrina??  Friday (talk) 15:25, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; Bound to be PoV, and can be covered in the hurricane article. Besides it doesn't include his sacrifice of the last two days of his five week vacation. LOL &mdash; RJH 15:26, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Any relevant information about Mr Bush's response to Katrina should be contained in the article. Agree that it can't be comprehensive and will inevitably have a POV skew, and is of little use as its own entry. Could argue for a merge, but I don't see that it has any use really. Peeper 15:35, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Absolutely delete. What a strange thing to have an article about; what on earth can be written here that cannot be written far more appropriately, and in better contexts, in the main articles?— encephalon |  &zeta;   16:19:09, 2005-09-02 (UTC)
 * weak transwikinews I'm only saying it, because it seems like its trying to detail a timeline of the response of the President... Roodog2k (talk) 16:38, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * We can't transwiki to Wikinews, which is public domain, not GFDL. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 18:43, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd say we can, actually, because the mere list of activities and corresponding dates is probably not copyrightable (ergo, not actually released under any "license" at all). -- BD2412 talk 20:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Currently is a rather terse timeline. Encyclopedic, verifiable, neutral. --Tony Sidaway Talk  17:40, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Discussion of Bush's response belongs in the Hurricane Katrina article where it has context. Quale 18:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Hurricane Katrina. Zoe 19:38, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Hurricane Katrina, and/or into Political effects of Hurricane Katrina to the extent that his timeline of activities has become a political issue Timeline of Hurricane Katrina . -- BD2412 talk 20:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete echoing Encephalon. Dottore So 01:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Is it just me or is there like about 100 pages on Hurricane Katrina? I think people are overkilling the coverage on it... Sasquatch   &#35762;  &#30475;  02:25, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge Bush is going to take a lot of flak on this one, and yes there's a lot of coverage, the expected casualty rate is looking like 3 times 9/11's. --TimPope 09:57, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Hurricane Katrina, where it has context. &minus;Woodstone 17:07:41, 2005-09-03 (UTC)
 * Weak Merge if necessary into Hurricane Katrina --PhilipO 22:29, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Tony Sidaway. El_C 01:34, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This is a timeline of happened events, how much more NPOV can you get? It maintains neutrality by presenting only verifiable facts. --Gebuhuka 01:51, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Not enough detail. It also includes events other than Katrina response which are POV without details such as whether a 5-minute speech was surrounded by 13 hours of Katrina activities.  Maybe this article can be written when more information is available. (SEWilco 02:53, 8 September 2005 (UTC))
 * Merge into a "responses to Hurricane Katrina" article or section. There are currently a few suitable articles and sections; I would like to see all of those merged into a Hurricane Katrina disaster relief and Hurricane Katrina, each of which would have both "United States" and "Global" subsections. +sj  +  03:21, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Political effects of Hurricane Katrina or delete. This article appears to be a list, and I count four items actually relevant to its topic.  Regardless, this definitely has all the makings of a POV can of worms; I can see how a lot of activities could be conveniently overlooked. --timc | Talk 04:10, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: It's hard to ignore the irony that Russian response to Hurricane Katrina is up and running, while George W. Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina is VFDed due to a lack of content. --Gebuhuka 04:54, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Keep an eye on Vladimir Putin's response to Hurricane Katrina and see how much information is available for that. There is a difference between the action which a leader can cause to be done as opposed to how much he can do with his two hands.  (SEWilco 05:57, 8 September 2005 (UTC))
 * Comment: Article is expanded, please reconsider. I don't really object to the idea of merging it, but I'm not sure how this can be done with the existing articles. Gebuhuka 08:19, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Tony Sidaway. --Tsaddik Dervish 11:23, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge: But only if it can be kept as a separate line of events. Rename as "The President's Activity During Same Time Frame" or something like that.  Being named as his "response" doesn't allow the article to fairly include activities not directly related to Hurricane K.  Rather, it forces an implied non-response which I'd rather not see in the Wikipedia.  By renaming it, the same details could remain and the reader could decide for her/himself the relevance to Hurricane Katrina.  Wynote.blogspot.com 08:16, 8 September 2005
 * Merge into Timeline of Hurricane Katrina -St|eve 20:52, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Merge into Timeline of Hurricane Katrina Alan 23:51, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Timeline and Political effects of Hurricane Katrina. --PHenry 01:50, 9 September 2005 (UTC)


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