Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Governors of California by time in office


 * 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 delete. Kurykh (talk) 00:46, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

List of Governors of California by time in office

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Was redirected to the main list of California Governor's 2 years ago, after this table was inserted there. However, less than a month after that merge, this bit of Original research was removed by another editor as "frankly unnecessary". I restored the redirect, and at the same time restored the table to the target article. However upon reflection I do not think that was the correct procedure. This simply does not pass WP:GNG.  Onel 5969  TT me 19:35, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, absolutely trivial information. Why does it matter how many days someone served as governor? Who is helped by knowing that Earl Warren spent one extra day than Ronald Reagan and George Deukmejian? No one who works on the main article wants it, and it apparently can't survive on its own, so let's just mercy kill it. --Golbez (talk) 20:24, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   20:44, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   20:45, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:46, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Who after all is served by List of Presidents of the United States by time in office? Same idea, subnational scale. Hyperbolick (talk) 22:24, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not the best good reasoning. That list should be deleted too. --Golbez (talk) 02:16, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Why? Obviously people have interest. Hyperbolick (talk) 21:01, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * That someone has an interest in a subject doesn't make it encyclopedic. --Golbez (talk) 22:27, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * What does? List here is factual, easy to verify when governors took/left office and count days, has value in giving one measure of historic impact. Hyperbolick (talk) 12:27, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Having the page at a national level does not imply that it should also exist at a sub-national level. Power~enwiki (talk) 18:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Seems to me it already exists and we're debating undoing whatever work went in. California might be pointed out to be bigger both in size and population than most nations in the world. Hyperbolick (talk) 22:30, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * So, California might merit this list, but Delaware, maybe not? --Golbez (talk) 23:33, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - the content could be moved to List of Governors of California but that page appears to have already removed it as unimportant. Power~enwiki (talk) 18:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I honestly don't care much if this article stays, as long as it doesn't get merged into that list. --Golbez (talk) 19:15, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia has various capabilities (multiple subsections, sortable tables, etc.) that obviate the need to maintain multiple articles that relist the same basic information on different sorting criteria. If there's a genuine need for this information, then it should be in the main list of governors of California rather than a separate spinoff list — and the fact that the editors who actively maintain that list don't want this there is not, in and of itself, enough of a reason to justify recreating and maintaining it as a spinoff. If the place where it belongs doesn't want it, then it just shouldn't be here at all. Bearcat (talk) 14:47, 6 May 2017 (UTC)


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