Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/To Take a Bullet for the President


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The result was delete. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 02:21, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

To Take a Bullet for the President

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary - this article only serves to define the term which is already defined on Wiktionary. The other contents are already covered in their respective articles. Gwernol 00:55, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge with United States Secret Service. Lbbzman (talk) 00:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I feel that this article should be kept as it gives a more of an explanation. Had Tim McCarty not of taken the bullet then they would be no article but as he had. This gives more than wiki-dictonary does. Chandlerjoeyross (talk) 01:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Chandlerjoeyross is the creator of the article.
 * Does this really matter? Editorofthewiki (talk) 00:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete - unsourced, colloquialism, tries to make an article out of one aspect of Secret Service duties, and the info is already in Secret Service. Pairadox (talk) 01:10, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. -  Milk's   Favorite   Cookie  01:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. KurtRaschke (talk) 01:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Cookie. JuJube (talk) 01:32, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. This could be an encyclopedic subject, but would call for a serious and time consuming historical research (especially on other countries, cultural connotations, etc.) - while at the moment the article is just poorly written. Pundit | utter  03:06, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, reuse of phrase undoubtedly derived from military usage, not particularly notable in itself. Verges on WP:NOT. --Dhartung | Talk 07:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - a valid subject, certainly notable. Porcupine (prickle me! · contribs · status) 10:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above   Compwhiz II ( Talk )( Contribs )  19:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Valid subject, is more than a def. Editorofthewiki (talk) 00:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. No need for a redirect, since it's probably an unlikely search term, but one to the US secret service should be set up if that's what people want. If there were more people (and in other walks of life) who went about taking bullets for the President or anybody else, a standalone article could be worthwhile (much as Pundit has argued), but at present it's just about the way that the secret service does what it's apparently meant to do. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 05:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete'. It's a potentially valid topic (it's notability is not entirely clear), but the article is unsourced and a waste of time for readers clicking over from, e.g., Tim McCarthy.  If this is all that can be said about the topic, we should not have a separate article.--ragesoss (talk) 17:37, 8 February 2008 (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.