Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities

2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities

Yes, this has already been through VfD once. The consensus was to keep and clean up the article. And that would be fine. Except, well, the article got worse. The article spawned seven child articles, the article became a mess of POV and unnotable accusations from blogs and minor media sources. The article didn't fix. Which means that the will of the last VfD wasn't really achieved.

So here we are again. I'd like to see this redirect to the main article on the Presidential election, and for a short summary of the concerns to be there. In two months, if there's anything that turned out to be notable, we can spin this article back off. But right now, this article has turned into the equivalent of listing every person who's ever claimed to be abducted by aliens on Alien Abduction, with spin-off pages for what color they said the aliens were. Except that in two years people will still care about alien abductions, whereas it's dubious whether any of these irregularities or controversies are going to amount to anything at all. Creation of this article was premature, and it's turned into the equivalent of fancruft for politics. Please - merge it for now, and we can spin it back off if any of this amounts to anything more than idle speculation. Or, if we must keep it, can we move it to Wikinews. Snowspinner 08:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)