Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of close United States presidential elections


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The result was   delete. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 15:15, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

List of close United States presidential elections

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No notability established, no criteria for closeness, essentially no citations. Staxringold talkcontribs 13:34, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, notability is not really a relevant issue here, but "close" is arbitrary and undefined, and there have not yet been so many presidential elections that we need to discuss a subset of them only in a separate page. We already have the comprehensive and sortable List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin and List of United States presidential elections by Electoral College margin; this adds nothing to what those already cover and make clear, just as if we had List of countries with really big populations notwithstanding the comprehensive List of countries by population.  postdlf (talk) 13:47, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, per Postdlf. Doesn't conform to WP:LIST.  Night w   17:05, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, what I meant by notability really overlapped with my 2nd point and what you're talking about. My point was just that even if you could figure out the closeness criteria there's no particular reason shown that this measure is better. And, as you said, there's already full lists of presidential elections by margin so this isn't a list that needs an arbitrary limiter to be accessible. Staxringold talkcontribs 14:02, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. & others. Unencyclopedic & lacking reliable sources.--JayJasper (talk) 19:14, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - I agree this isn't needed for the reasons mentioned above. --Kumioko (talk) 16:45, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
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