Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Political party control of United States state legislatures and governors


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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 00:50, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Political party control of United States state legislatures and governors

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I'm not quite sure I get the purpose of this table. The data is all taken from a single source. No reason is given for only covering the period of 2009-present. The article lacks sufficient context to determine its purpose. I hate that my reasoning amounts to "unencyclopedic" but that's what this strikes me as. Wikipedia is not for listings of unexplained statistics. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 20:41, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 20:44, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * observationcan't make heads or tails of it, but can't bring myself to type the "D" word. Dloh cierekim  10:20, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   05:10, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment Maybe change the title to "Democrats lost a lot of seats during Obama administration". j/k. Not sure how to vote on this one.  Cllgbksr (talk) 06:06, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * CSD as test page. It's obviously incomplete and does not look readily improvable. Does not have much context and looks a little ORish. Creator has not edited the thing since Nov. 25, 2016 and has not edited at all since April 10, 2017. Has not responded to our hail. Email not enabled. If creator returns and wishes to resume work, we can restore and userfy. If we just userfy now, it may again be tagged for deletion and the process resumed w/o resolution. Dloh  cierekim  15:55, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment. This page appears to be very similar to the data at Political party strength in U.S. states, except that page doesn't have separate historical data for upper vs. lower state houses. The subject is certainly notable, but without better sourcing it's hard to see a basis for keeping this nascent and unclear semi-fork. I guess a redirect could be considered under WP:CHEAP, but I don't have strong feelings about that either way. --Arxiloxos (talk) 21:52, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, the data at Political party strength in U.S. states looks like what I think this table is sort of trying to be, only that data goes all the way back to 1938 for state legislatures and 1922 for governors. I think that longer data set is more useful and that article provides more context than the one in question here, which only goes back to 2009 and provides no context.  The selection of 2009 as a starting date for this data smells fishy to me, but then again the source used for the data only goes back to 2009.  At any rate, since this seems to be trying to do the same thing as Political party strength in U.S. states I'd be fine with this being redirected there. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 22:13, 3 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete as per nom. The current page has no value, so WP:TNT. Power~enwiki (talk) 20:30, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Adding content fork to my deletion rationale.Dlohcierekim (talk) 20:58, 11 May 2017 (UTC)


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