Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of broken election promises (United States)


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 20:53, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

List of broken election promises (United States)

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There are no sources evident. It is also non-encyclopedic, and lets face it, not even an icecube of the tip of the iceberg. Wikivanda199 (talk) 15:37, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Are you serious? Delete as WP:LISTCRUFT, not to mention violating WP:NPOV. THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL 16:06, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as reeking of POV, WP:OR, non-encyclopedic, etc. KuyaBriBri Talk 16:10, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - no way to have NPOV, and doesn't even scratch the surface on the tip of that iceberg...--Unionhawk Talk 16:26, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Snow Delete- Not sure where to begin, but here goes. One, its unmaintainable. With just the elections in the last 12 years, it would probably be one of the biggest lists on Wikipedia. Two: No way in hell it can be NPOV. Three: utterly non-encyclopedic. Almost no redeeming value to this list at all. Umbralcorax (talk) 16:31, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete An article with a title like List of broken election promises is by definition going to be biased towards one political party or another. There's almost no way this can be made NPOV. - 2 ... says you, says me, suggestion box 16:41, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Wikipedia is not a soapbox. I would delete it myself but I haven't found a CSD criterion to suit, and the AfD hasn't been open long enough. Frank  |  talk  17:24, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete: The article, as scoped now, is WP:LISTCRUFT and an edit war waiting to happen. There have indeed been some cases where, even by WP:NPOV standards, the major theme of a presidential campaign was a specific promise that was clearly unmet by the administration.  Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 is a prime example: If I recall correctly, he was campaigning keeping America out of World War II, when it's been documented that he was trying every way he could get away with to get the U.S. involved.  Woodrow Wilson ("He Kept Us Out of War") had a similar problem in 1916, though he genuinely believed the US had no reason to become entangled until Germany started sinking Americans.  However, a list of clear cases might actually be too short for a Wikipedia list.  Also, this article has gone a year and a half without references on something that certainly needs it; and, in the form it is now, I'm surprised it hasn't been "discovered" and descended into an edit war repeatedly yet.  (As for CSD: As the article stands right now, it's barely WP:CSD &mdash; serves no purpose but to disparage or threaten its subject.  Comments about the Bushes are still WP:BLP, technically.) --Closeapple (talk) 18:05, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:OR, WP:RS, WP:NPOV, WP:SOAPBOX. Bearcat (talk) 22:22, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Per all of Bearcat's reasonings and WP:Really? Elected officials don't keep all their promises? I'm shocked, I say, shocked!  Nate  • ( chatter ) 23:21, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Page fails list criteria, has POV issues and is impossible to reference properly because doing so would require synthesis of sources to get new information. - Mgm|(talk) 12:00, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unmaintainable, and each entry is inherently POV, even if the list overall had balance, this is not acceptable.YobMod 09:20, 7 May 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.