Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John L. Kerry

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was REDIRECT. dbenbenn | talk 21:58, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The votes were 9 delete, 5 redirect/merge, 6 keep. Since the deletes weren't in the majority, I've reinterpreted them as "delete or redirect".

John L. Kerry
I should like to nominate John L. Kerry to be 'deleted'.

This article is not encyclopaedic knowledge (in my view) and I am not convinced it belongs in Wikipedia at all. At the least, it certainly doesn't deserve its own article. Perhaps it could be redirected to somewhere else. Furthermore the content of the article is wrong - 'John L. Kerry' does not refer to a person at all. --Mysteronald 10:51, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Below was here before I set this page up correctly... with apologies. Is this now correct?

It appears that the request for deletion was made by Mysteronald, and that no one has voted for deletion yet, so I will create the page here.

&mdash; DLJessup 00:15, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * No. I don't believe that this article should be deleted; rather, I believe that any of its content that is not already there be moved to the Faithless electors subsection of U.S. presidential election, 2004 and this page turned into a redirect to that subsection. &mdash; DLJessup 00:15, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Info already at the page that DLJessup indicates. Stombs 11:21, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable results upon Google search. - Mailer Diablo 15:11, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. --Idont Havaname 17:29, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as suggested by DLJessup. If the New York votes had been counted for this nonexistent person then that would have been one thing, but as the only existence of "John L. Kerry" was as a typo, I can't honestly see why we need a separate page for 'him'. Dbiv 18:12, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not an online news archive. This little squib could be amusing filler for some columnist's musing-of-the day, but it is of no historic or political significance whatsoever. It does not tell us anything meaningful about Kerry, the election, the Electoral College, U. S. voting process, etc. Some clerk made a typo. Big deal. Far less important than Richard M. Nixon's once referring to "My running mate, Henry Cabot Liar." Dpbsmith (talk) 18:28, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Redirect maybe (see above) K1Bond007 18:48, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This sort of detail is what makes encyclopedias useful.--Centauri 22:22, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect Delete. Megan1967 01:37, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Vote amended above. Having reviewed the article again its perhaps too un-encyclopaedic and trivial. Megan1967 23:13, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, bloggy, trivial. Typos are rarely encyclopedic topics. Wyss 08:03, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Doesn't even deserve a redirect, nor a mention in the John Kerry article.  RickK 08:05, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. A redirect solely to discourage recreation is tempting, though. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 08:23, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for now. I'd prefer to see it merged somewhere, though. Everyking 13:32, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and allow for organic growth and expansion. GRider\talk 20:04, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge - perhaps with the Election page? --Irishpunktom\talk 00:38, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Please do not alter others' comments. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 03:05, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's no equivalent article for the electoral vote 'cast' for "John Ewards", nor should there be. This is beyond trivial and is already mentioned in the main article.  If it hadn't been corrected in time, that would be another matter, but as is, this is barely a footnote to a footnote. --Minesweeper 03:08, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. A little typo that made no difference to history whatever.  "Beyond trivial" is right.  Edeans 05:18, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Amusing, but unnotable. Might be worth a mention on the John F. Kerry page, or as a note on the New York section of the election page though.  Smoddy | &epsilon;&iota;&pi;&epsilon;&tau;&epsilon; 22:01, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Faithless electors subsection of U.S. presidential election, 2004. Andris 23:21, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

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