Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International reaction to the United States presidential election, 2008


 * 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. The virtually identical AfD International reactions to the United States presidential election, 2012 closed as a Keep as well. (non-admin closure) Faustus37 (talk) 01:19, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

International reaction to the United States presidential election, 2008

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WP:NOTNEWSPAPER. The article is a long list of world leaders when results of United States presidential election, 2008 were out; different ways of saying congratulations and hopes on seeing a new leader rise. Redtigerxyz Talk 18:55, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. -- Cheers,  Riley   Huntley  15:23, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep: As with International reactions to the United States presidential election, 2012, this is a good WP:LISTPURP with plenty of precedent on other election pages. Given its length I think it's appropriate to keep it separate rather than merge it. Faustus37 (talk) 17:02, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. This pretty much proves everything I had to say about the 2012 version, except even more so. There is nothing here that is not boilerplate reaction except for a single sentence about polling which should be relegated to the general article on the election. At any rate by now all of these officials have had to actually deal with Obama, and their initial reactions four years ago are all but forgotten except in newspaper and webpage archives. Mangoe (talk) 17:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:EFFECT Obama was the first black president of the United States, this is noted by alot of the countries involved for a reaction. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 19:53, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I have to say, "so what?" Our article Obama says that his election was a first; everyone else repeats this obvious point. Is it noteworthy that everyone states the obvious? Mangoe (talk) 19:56, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Those are your opinions though, the fact is that countries did react to that, they did not have to as some did not but some of them did. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The fact is that Obama had various ceremonial meetings over the past few weeks too, and no doubt a lot of them got newspaper coverage somewhere; but they were all surely too unimportant in the long run to merit our coverage. I don't see you trying to demonstrate the importance of these reactions. Mangoe (talk) 20:25, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Ceremonial meetings are daily business for a head of state, but the presidential election in one of the most powerful nations of the world are exceptional since a possible change in US policy is going to be a global factor and will automatically prompt noteworthy reactions from other governments. Including these reactions in the main elections article would however make that article too large, so keep this one. De728631 (talk) 01:00, 18 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - Largely per rationale at International reactions to the United States presidential election, 2012's AfD. Go   Phightins  !  22:57, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the Article Rescue Squadron's list of content for rescue consideration. Faustus37 (talk) 08:05, 16 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep The comments by world leaders when a new world leader gets elected/relected, is clearly notable for an encyclopedia to have.  D r e a m Focus  12:05, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It can hardly be clearly notable when so many people believe that it is not! Mangoe (talk) 13:22, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  TheSpecialUser TSU 03:42, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisting comment - I initially closed this per keep. However, after looking at the comments made at Articles for deletion/International reactions to the United States presidential election, 2012, I think that a bit more input is necessary.  TheSpecialUser TSU 03:44, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * When the other article's deletion discussion closes, this article then should be either kept or deleted as both articles are up for AfD for the same reasons and the articles are just about the same as well. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:13, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: International reactions to the United States presidential election, 2012 has indeed closed as a "Keep." Faustus37 (talk) 01:04, 24 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak keep as per my comment at the 2012 article. This one is a bit different because it's been around for 4 years. But all the more reason to try to clean it up and focus on the long term impact of Obama's initial election on the international scene. And as I stated at the other article, there's a way to summarize this and merge it with other articles about American foreign policy, or Obama's foreign policy in particular. Shooterwalker (talk) 20:30, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
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