Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sleeping in United States Congress offices


 * 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 delete. Yunshui 雲 水 09:17, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Sleeping in United States Congress offices

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Phenomenon does not meet notability criteria for an article. BilCat (talk) 05:21, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Doesn't appear to be significant. WP:NOTNEWS, plus WP:NEVENTS. -- Broccoli &#38; Coffee (Oh hai) 05:49, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP: NOR. Vorbee (talk) 09:57, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 12:13, 8 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment - it isn't a recent phenomenon, has been discussed and "criticized" multiple times over the years. 2011,2015. Apparently it has been going on since the 80s, and even banned by a Speaker at one point. Although now our current speaker does it himself. Not sure it needs it's own article, but it could be mentioned elsewhere in a parent article. I disagree with previous votes calling it original research, or some recent news event. WikiVirusC (talk) 12:56, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just because it's newsworthy, it doesn't become notable.No redirect. Also WP:TROUT the original author Niteshift36 (talk) 13:07, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you don't have a COI? If you are working the Niteshift, you obviously wouldn't be sleeping in an office. Natureium (talk) 15:06, 8 May 2018 (UTC)


 *  Keep (or move/redirect) - Hot button issue in Congress that is receiving significant press coverage. If the article cannot be kept, it should be redirected to Bennie Thompson, List of acts of the 115th United States Congress or some other suitable target.  Perhaps it can be moved to the name of a bill that gets drafted? --Jax 0677 (talk) 13:25, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Name of the bill? That defeats the whole purpose here. The SUBJECT is not notable. Merely giving it a new name doesn't help. Niteshift36 (talk) 15:00, 8 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. This fails WP:NOTNEWS and could be mentioned in a sentence or 2 in another article if appropriate. This is an interesting piece of trivia, not an encyclopedic event. Natureium (talk) 13:40, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - per WP:NOTNEWS, not having independent notability. Not a viable redirect term - why would someone come to an encyclopedia to research something like that? Very low page views outside of the days of initial creation all but confirm this. Sergecross73   msg me  13:46, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. The fact that it's a thing some congresspeople have done is not the same thing as it being a notable concept in its own right. If a bill actually gets put forward, then that might well be an appropriate article topic — which could then briefly address this by way of background — but that doesn't mean this needs its own standalone concept article separately from that. Bearcat (talk) 16:50, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per NOTNEWS, unless these people are sleeping in the same office and having congress with each other (woo hoo). Clarityfiend (talk) 00:09, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. SportingFlyer  talk  21:31, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete as a non-notable topic. Although I could imagine including much of the material in a page on the compensation of legislators in the U.S.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:34, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
 *  Reply -, such as Salaries of members of the United States Congress? --Jax 0677 (talk) 22:20, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Tracking the historic salaries of the legislative branch and complaining that some members have a cot in their office isn't even apples and oranges. It's comparing apples and airplanes. Niteshift36 (talk) 22:54, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
 * And unless it's survived a deletion discussion of sorts, it's just an invalid WP:OSE argument too. Sergecross73   msg me  23:30, 14 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.