Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal


 * 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 of the debate was keep. Pepsidrinka 02:47, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Delete This article is completely superfluous. The matter is covered just fine under the Jack Abramoff bio. Whatever worthwhile content remains here should be merged with that article. --DaleEastman 17:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Strong Keep. This article actually needs to be expanded. Jack Abramoff is already at 63K in length, and that's only a bio with terse summaries of most of the scandals he's involved in. The Indian lobbying scandal is actually lacking much of the explanation of what actually happened with the tribes (Abramoff's collusion with Scanlon, the scams run on the Coushatta and Tigua, etc.). I have a lot of notes on this which need to be written up. Just to be clear, the lobbying with DeLay and much of the other stuff which makes the news is actually separate from the fraud against the tribes which got Abramoff caught. KWH 20:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Strong Keep. Abramoff was involved in a variety of corruption (SunCruz, Indian tribes, Safavian/GSA, to name only three). It makes much more sense to have separate articles on these, and summary information in his bio, than to expand his bio cover these distinct areas, with different sets of participants, in one place. John Broughton 13:02, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Strong Keep. As per KWH and John Broughton. There are too many scandals that he's involved with to include in a single Abramoff article. (Note, neither of the above mentioned the Saipan/Marianas Islands one . . . which merits its own, as of yet unwritten, article) -- Sholom 13:11, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Strong Keep Speedy Keep. This nomination is utterly ridiculous. Abramoff is enmeshed as a central figure in four separate scandals, each of which merits a separate article at the very least. The Indian lobbying scandal unearthed by McCain was the first to reach public notice. The prime mover in the Sun Cruz scandal is almost certainly going to turn out to be the mafia. The prime movers in the influence peddling, golf trip scheme are the pols who were taking the bribes, not the lobbyist who was the mere conduit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gorgonzilla (talk • contribs).

Speedy keep This nomination has no merit. If the issue is important enough for there to be congressional hearings, i'm sure it's important enough for a wikipedia article. I'm guessing some right wing whackjob nominated this article for obvious partisan reasons. Mineralè 02:27, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Keep Kinda silly it's up for delete, imho. ~Kylu ( u | t )  02:45, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


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