Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Political positions of Dennis Kucinich


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The result was merge to Dennis Kucinich. As suggested by the nom, only merge well-sourced noteworthy content. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:26, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Political positions of Dennis Kucinich

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Most of the content on this page is primary sourced text that appears to have been added around 2007-2010. Approximately half of the sources are Kucinich's old campaign website. Any well-sourced noteworthy content can be merged with Dennis Kucinich if it's already not on there. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 00:04, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. cinco deL3X1  ◊distænt write◊  00:25, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 02:56, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge -Indy beetle (talk) 23:15, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge whatever is useful to Dennis Kucinich, changing opinion after further thought. Keep Reminding everyone that we have an entire Category:Political positions of United States presidential candidates, 2016, useful in on ongoing basis to folks revisiting 2016 for whatever reason.  Also, I looked at the page and it is not "primary";  there is a lot of solid sourcing although it does need updating  (true of all too many WP pages, but hardly a reason to delete.)  And then there are articles like the one that ran just yesterday in Slate (magazine) ''Kucinich 2020: Dennis Kucinich lost in Ohio on Tuesday night, but his old platform is now the future of the Democratic Party], reminding us that he is widely discussed as a contender for the Presidency in 2020.  Also WP:NOTTEMPORARY.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:14, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Widely discussed as a contender for 2020? No, in no way at all is that true, and your link doesn't show that at all. The man just lost a Democratic primary for a Governorship by more than 40 points. And it's absolutely true that half or so of the sources are primary sources. The rest are not primary sources, but they are of various degree of reliability. There's zero reason why the little good content that exists on this page can't be added to the Dennis Kucinich main page. As it stands, Political positions of Dennis Kucinich is just an unencyclopedic replica of his old campaign website. If the decision is to keep the page, editors should promptly go on to delete all unsourced and poorly sourced content (leaving little if anything). Snooganssnoogans (talk) 18:52, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Listening harder to what you're saying, I looked at subheads Enivronmental, Gun, and Immigration, removed primary sources, and replaced one dead link with a reliable one. Certainly article can and should be cleaned up, but, as I said, there are some/many solid sources on the page.  He did run for President twice.  And this is an ordinary sort of page we keep for folks who have done that.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:30, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't it be more reasonable to build his main article and if, by some miracle, he becomes a major presidential candidate or notable again to an extent where the main article becomes unwieldy in size that we re-create the 'pol positions of DK' article? Snooganssnoogans (talk) 19:54, 10 May 2018 (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.