Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Texas's 22nd congressional district election, 2008


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The result was   keep. Tone 19:38, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Texas's 22nd congressional district election, 2008
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No reason for this election to have its own article; the remaining 434 House races do not. This material could all easily go back where it belongs under the district and candidates' articles. This is recentism at its silliest (and US-centric thinking as well). Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  23:47, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nomination rests on a misconception; there are quite a few other articles for individual district elections. See the relevant category . This was Tom DeLay's district, so special attention and much more extensive coverage is unsurprising. The article needs a good deal of work, though. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 01:05, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep If all of the races do not have articles, they should. There is always good RS coverage.     DGG ( talk ) 02:34, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep a nationally important race. Plenty of source out there.--Blargh29 (talk) 03:05, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - there have been literally tens of thousands of Congressional races in US history, not to mention races in individual districts in the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany, Zimbabwe, etc. While it's to be expected these will garner attention at the local (and occasionally national) level, there's no good reason to presume notability for them generally. Only the sum of the parts - ie, the election nationwide - is definitely notable. Perhaps merge a brief summary at United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, 2008. - Biruitorul Talk 03:54, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Without commenting on whether or not all individual US HoR elections deserve a page, this one seems to have the sources to show that it is notable for the swing of DeLay's old seat back into GOP hands.  young  american  (wtf?) 12:44, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to [United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, 2008. As with Texas's 22nd congressional district elections, 2006, this appears to have been a "daily news" type article that kept track of developments in the primaries and the campaign and the general election, and most of this would fall under WP:NOTNEWS.  Normally, the link from the Texas elections article would be to websites that have information for people who wish to check results.  I suppose one could say that all elections for a national legislature are "nationally important", but the precedent for a description of any race in any legislative district in the world for Congress, the British House of Commons, the Japanese Diet, the German Bundestag, the Israeli Knesset, etc., is alarming.  Would anyone want to keep this article if it had been about a race for a rural district of Uruguay?  Mandsford (talk) 14:45, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions.  --  Fences  &amp;  Windows  20:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  --  Fences  &amp;  Windows  20:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep because the subject received national news coverage. In general, I think these articles on individual legislative races should not exist, but that is because they primarily have only very local sources. Karanacs (talk) 20:37, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep In general, I have no problem with articles on competitive campaigns for the US Congress, and this one was competitive. (Most are not.) This race was especially important because of its link to Tom Delay. Gruntler (talk) 08:23, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Sufficient coverage to keep. Can be improved. Pmlineditor  Talk 11:13, 23 September 2009 (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.