Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States Senators in the 112th Congress by seniority


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The result was   delete. JForget 13:16, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

List of United States Senators in the 112th Congress by seniority

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It does not make sense for this list to exist. It is a list of members of a body that won't be in existence for more than a year. In the past, similar lists have not been created until after the first membership change during the Congress. That is, the main list suffices from noon on January 3 until someone dies or resigns. Only then is "List of United States Senators in the Xth Congress by seniority" created. Rrius (talk) 22:23, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Talk about crystalballery. Abductive  (reasoning) 22:25, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Members of the 111th United States Congress is boring, but this is ridiculous. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:38, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * KEEP until this body exists, then CLEAN by changing anything needed.--99.182.21.35 (talk) 00:59, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Why? So far it is claiming that several members who are up for re-election will be part of that Congress. To claim that they will be or will not be is inappropriately predicting the future. Also, it is claiming that each of those people will be alive at noon on January 3, 2009. The very way it reads is as though we are already in the midst of the 112th Congress. It is premature. I'm sure User:Dunstvangeet and I are not the only ones with lists like this in private sandboxes, but for the time being, that is where they belong. -Rrius (talk) 01:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete with extreme prejudice per nom. How can we have a listing of members of a legislative body when a third of its members won't be determined until an election which won't take place until more than a year from now? This is like some election-rigging nightmare in which the "results" of the election are determined long before the voters go to the polls. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:06, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete The 112th Congress doesn't exist, therefore there are no members, therefore this list is conjecture. Cmprince (talk) 14:54, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Per above, while I find the United States Congress as interesting as the next, this composition of that particular legislative session has yet to be determined. Remake after the November 2, 2010 elections. AP1787 (talk) 21:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, it should follow current practice, and wait until after the first change to Seniority in the United States Senate after the new Congress begins on January 3, 2011. Otherwise we end up with duplicated information. -Rrius (talk) 14:12, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, oftentimes a senator resigns early so that the newly elected senator can be appointed to his seat, giving their state an edge in seniority. These magnanimous acts are entirely unpredictable. Abductive  (reasoning) 16:15, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.DCmacnut &lt; &gt; 19:12, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete mostly per nom. I'll add that we don't even have a general list of Senators for the 112th Congress, in which seniority could easily factor into such a list. Otherwise, we're just gazing into a crystal ball. MuZemike 03:28, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete An unnecessary and inaccurate placeholder, since one-third of the U.S. Senators will be standing for re-election in 2010. I'm not in favor of making an article that not only needs to be "cleaned", but cannot be cleaned until more than a year from now.  Mandsford (talk) 17:54, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.