Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maryland state senate delegations


 * 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   keep. Consensus is that the list only requires improvement through normal cleanup. (non-admin closure) I, Jethrobot  drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 00:06, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Maryland state senate delegations

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Article should be either merged or deleted, since it is non-encyclopedic. and is only a long list of politicians, most of them red link pages. The chart goes out of bounds. Tinton5 (talk) 03:39, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep- As Almanac-type material; currently red-linked or not, Wikipedia recognizes de facto notability for all elected state legislators, and if 1 of the 47 was appointed and no article is ever created, I don't see how deleting the chamber in toto improves the project. Dru of Id (talk) 06:29, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: Is this article intended as a break-out article from Maryland Senate? I.e. for use with a template:see also-hatnote? Because I can certainly see the validity of the article in that role (although it needs sources first). -- BenTels (talk) 12:08, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Comment (userfy) - Encyclopedic list with useful navigational function. That said, the layout needs to be made vertical rather than horizontal. Carrite (talk) 16:06, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Title also needs to be tweaked: List of members of the Maryland State Senate for the 2011-2012 session or some such. Carrite (talk) 16:08, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see the problem... this is just the START of a tabular list. I seriously doubt that they have a 4 year session in Maryland, more likely 2 year sessions with staggered elections, so it looks to me that this needs to be userfied as Not Ready For Primetime. Also, to repeat, the session dates should run on the X axis and the districts on the Y access so that the orientation is vertical. I'd also suggest that having one page for each session is probably the way to approach things without it becoming Too Much Too Much. Carrite (talk) 16:13, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * This is the work of a new content creator here, I dropped them a line offering to help. Carrite (talk) 16:26, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * This is what the creator is trying to do for the Maryland Senate: Virginia state senate delegations. It's an interesting way to present the information, political science-wise... Carrite (talk) 16:51, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 23:28, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep or userfy. As Carrite notes, this is a start of a tabular list. More complete lists of this type exist for Virgina and Massachusetts. This list may not be ready for prime time, but it has encyclopedic value. • Gene93k (talk) 00:27, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - could be cleaned up. Redlinks are irrelevant. Nearly all of those people are notable and should have articles. Savidan 04:03, 23 August 2012 (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.