Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Election Results, Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (Primary Election)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. I went and merged everything already. Wizardman 03:43, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Election Results, Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (Primary Election)

While articles on elections and election results are fine, I don't quite see the need for a seperate article specifically for the primary elections for the mayoral seat in one city. I would say redirect to Election Results, Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, but this wonky title doesn't seem to be a better search term. Lawrence Cohen 17:09, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Redirect~~ to the wonky Election Results, Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio for now. Then, start thinking about moving that one, and fixing the (then double) redirect. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 17:15, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I suggest 2001 Cincinnati mayor elections by the way, but that's of later concern. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 17:22, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Redirecting from such a wonky title is no use. Merge content and delete is a better option. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 17:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a fairly absurd slide down a slippery slope. We are an encyclopedia, not a place where the minutiae of local politics are exhaustively recorded. Biruitorul (talk) 17:23, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As the creator of the article, I would be satisfied with Merge with the general election results for the Cincinnati mayoral elections. And I would argue that primary election results for a major city's mayoral race do not constitute "minutiae." Acsenray (talk) 17:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would. Consider this: Cincinnati is the 56th largest city in the US. So let's say we keep this, establishing the precedent that all primaries for all mayoral elections in America's (to pick a round number) top 60 cities deserve articles. Multiply that by about 25 (primaries have existed for roughly a century and terms are usually four years), and voilà, you've got yourself 1500 "articles" detailing information that consists of, well, minutiae (as opposed to encyclopedic information, which mayoral general elections, as a general rule, simply are not, not to mention primaries). Add in non-US primaries and you're good for another few hundred at least. Given that even NYC (a city vastly more important that Cincinnati) doesn't have separate primary articles, there really is no defensible case to be made for maintaining this bit of trivia. Biruitorul (talk) 18:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Election Results, Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio for now. That article should probably be broadened into a general article Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. If we don't even have that there's very little point in shoveling some election results into odd places they won't be found. --Dhartung | Talk 20:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.