Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States vice presidential election, 2016


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The result was delete. WP:SNOW -- Tavix ( talk ) 21:55, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

United States vice presidential election, 2016

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There is no such thing as a "U.S. vice presidential election". The presidential and vice presidential nominees run on the same ticket as the presidential nominees. This does not strike me as a logical search term, hence deletion as my preferred outcome rather than a merge. (I think all of this info is contained elsewhere, anyway.) – Muboshgu (talk) 22:06, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. US vice presidential candidates don't run for that office; they just campaign for their boss (or in the case of one dingbat, against him). Clarityfiend (talk) 23:38, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak delete per above, PLUS: The politics involved are 100% intertwined with the POTUS election. I'm "weak" because it's enough separate information to merit a separate article.  See Content forking —GoldRingChip 23:43, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete there is no such thing as a vice presidential election in the US. There is a reason why no article exists for any other election.  This needs to be deleted ASAP.  Manful0103 (talk) 04:44, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, you can only vote for one unified "ticket," not an individual VP candidate. Thus, we don't have anyone campaigning to elect "Clinton/Pence" or "Trump/Kaine" - because it's simply not possible. We might be able to do something with some of the content in the article (we'll have to discuss that separately), but the article itself is unconvincing. GABgab 19:03, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: Sorry kids this is not a place to make-up abstract pages of "fun stuff" you might think about. There are no VP elections in the US.  Delete this please.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:589:4705:B31D:5414:DA21:D9E1:EAB2 (talk) 13:26, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. & all of the above.--JayJasper (talk) 20:57, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. One could imagine a much reduced article along the lines of "2016 US Vice Presidential Nominations". TallNapoleon (talk) 07:37, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per nom. Article about a non-existent subject.--NextUSprez (talk) 16:42, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: Strictly speaking the above comments are not necessarily true given how the Electoral College works; see Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. For the one case under the current constitutional arrangement where the election of the vice president departed from the election of the president, you could justify United States vice presidential election, 1836.  Wasted Time R (talk) 00:03, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think that article would be justified, since it was faithless electors that refused to cast their electoral votes for the VP candidate that threw it into the Senate, meaning it was part of the presidential election and not a vice presidential election. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:33, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete This article has to go. It can be broken up and put into elsewhere, but we do NOT have a VP election.  Even remain it.  Make it a page about ticket vetting.  I could live with that.  But a VP election page?  No.  We do NOT spilt ticket.2601:589:4705:B31D:93B:3AF5:D272:D226 (talk) 04:51, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Break-up makes not much sense, as it's a ticket election. Seperate articles would be justified with a separate election like governor and lt. governor in California, but that isn't the case here. --217.110.69.30 (talk) 10:33, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename to something more accurate like "United States vice presidential candidates, 2016" or "United States vice presidential candidate selection process, 2016". There's valuable information here. Instaurare (talk) 04:43, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Articles for that purpose already exist, see Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, 2016 & Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, 2016. This article is not only inaccurately titled, but a redundancy in regard to content.--JayJasper (talk) 17:55, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete This is already covered in the article about the presidential election (and some others) and there doesn't seem to be a "vice presidential election" to merit this article. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:40, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: Merge suggested of ALL these VP articles at Talk:United States presidential election, 2016. See Content forking for a good discussion of content forking, pro & con.—GoldRingChip 13:41, 19 August 2016 (UTC)—GoldRingChip 13:42, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Doesn't make sense having this article. The vice-presidential candidate is elected with the presidential candidate as part of a ticket, it's not a separate election. --yeah_93 (talk) 15:41, 19 August 2016 (UTC)


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