Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Speech of President


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The result was delete. Consensus is for deletion. North America1000 00:26, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Speech of President

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Just a random quote, originally sourced to Lincoln, then when prod'ed, prod removed and the attribution changed. This is probably speedyable, though I'm not 100% sure, so per the book I bring it here. Also a redirect would be pointless since the title is so vague. Crow Caw  18:42, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Bare quotes like this should not be encyclopedia articles, but they can be added to the speaker's page at Wikiquote instead. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:46, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wikiquote. The speaker doesn't appear to have a page there yet, but if this quote can be sourced, the page could be created. clpo13(talk) 18:50, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Except that Vidhya Devi Vandari never said that, or if he did he was (mis-)quoting Lincoln. Lincoln did say the last part ("Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong", but there's no evidence he said the first half, though commonly attributed to him. WQ already has the confirmed part, and has the unconfirmed part so noted as well. Crow  Caw  19:09, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah, well, delete then. clpo13(talk) 19:11, 14 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete because it doesn't really make sense as a wiki article and it is unsourced Sheepythemouse (talk) 20:55, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete because it is not notable as it is similar to many pronouncements by politicians. It may be a paraphrase of a Lincoln quote as User:Crow states. The article title is so vague and general that a reader will find it only by accident. There is no context for the quotation and no source. There is a Wikipedia article about Nepal's president but the name is spelled differently. See Bidhya Devi Bhandari, who, by the way, is a woman. There is no mention of this slogan as some sort of quote in that article. If this belongs anywhere, which I doubt, it could be mentioned there if it could be sourced. Other sources and news reports show the president's first name as Vidya. Spelling the last name with a V rather than Bh appears to be wrong so nothing much would be found under that spelling in any event. I saw no mention of this phrase in about five or six articles, although that does not mean some source may not exist because that would not be a comprehensive search of all articles about Ms. Bhandari. Donner60 (talk) 02:31, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * This is a widely believed misquotation, and the article is on the borderline of speedy deletion territory as the nominator said. There's almost zero context.  There's certainly no scope for expansion from nothing except an outright factual error and a vague handwave of a title into an actual article.  Uncle G (talk) 19:22, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT, WP:RS, and probably a few others. — swpb T 23:04, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as per the above. If there's noteworthy (and properly confirmed) information to be had here, it'd be better placed at the president's article, if we can figure out which president to quote. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 20:41, 19 May 2016 (UTC)


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