Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional United States presidential candidates (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 01:23, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

List of fictional United States presidential candidates
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Fails WP:LISTN; 99.9% unsourced. See also Articles for deletion/List of fictional vice presidents of the United States and Articles for deletion/List of unnamed fictional presidents of the United States. The closure of the previous nomination was largely based on a lack of rationale by the nominator and cited no sources that prove notability. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 22:49, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 22:49, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 22:49, 21 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per LISTN. Let them get fictionally elected first. :P Clarityfiend (talk) 22:55, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. I am increasingly worried about listcruft. This kind of ORish lists with next to no sources and very few blue linked entries (and getting fewer as we enforce NFICTION) are particularly bad. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 00:50, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: Fails WP:LISTN. Meets Listcruft. <span style="font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace;">  // Timothy ::  talk  01:46, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Who comes up with this junk? There are so many millions of characters in books, TV, plays, and movies who hold so many types of jobs and do so many things. It is not Wikipedia's job to catalogue such non-notable often-minor charactors, source-free and nothing discussing the topic as a whole. Reywas92Talk 07:39, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - nothing of value worth keeping Spiderone  14:27, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep as satisfying WP:LISTN. See Literary Hub, "Fictional Presidents", "Voters Versus the Corpus of fictional POTUS". pburka (talk) 20:14, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Only the first article is about candidates; the other two are for the elect(ed). Clarityfiend (talk) 04:41, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Unless this is a list of only unsuccessful candidates, there's a large overlap between presidents and presidential candidates, and campaigns are discussed in all three sources. pburka (talk) 12:01, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
 * There are already lists covering the successful ones, e.g. List of fictional presidents of the United States (A–B). Clarityfiend (talk) 05:05, 24 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per Clarityfiend. There is already coverage about fictional presidents, and this doesn't meet WP:LISTN. Archrogue (talk) 18:26, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete a list of items that are often minor inicidental trivia. There is no reason to unite them in a list.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:37, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Practically any fictional character can run for president, its not a notable characteriztic to list them after.★Trekker (talk) 17:49, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per mega-failure of LISTN and, er, WP:FICTIONALPOLITICALOUTCOMES...? ——  Serial  16:38, 28 August 2020 (UTC)


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