Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/President of Canada

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 redirect to Prime Minister of Canada. Vanamonde (Talk) 07:50, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

President of Canada

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Canada doesn't have a president 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 11:54, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:12, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Neither the United States has a Prime Minister. Privybst (talk) 14:20, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:12, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as utterly ludicrous and completely made up. Mccapra (talk) 20:08, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, the page gets 30,900 pageviews (84 a day), so the redirect to Prime Minister of Canada should be restored as it has longstanding consensus having been in place since 2007. Sahaib (talk) 20:29, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Also other incorrect examples include Prime Minister of the United States, King of Russia, Emperor of France, Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc. Sahaib (talk) 20:35, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Almost all of those are basically layman’s terms for an awkward official title. “PM of the US” is nonsense because a president and a PM are inherently different, incompatible things. Dronebogus (talk) 21:44, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 21:13, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It doesn't have hoax content; I'd say it has value as a disambiguation for those searching for the incorrect term when they don't know Canada's governing system. Not sure why Treasury Board President and House Speaker are there, but that's a different discussion. LizardJr8 (talk) 03:10, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This isn't a real title, and Wikipedia isn't in the business of making up titles. We report what is really used out there in the world. If we must have this article, turn it into a Redirect to Prime Minister of Canada as Privybst seems to be suggesting, above. --Flopsy Mopsy and Cottonmouth (talk) 08:18, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete we don’t need endless DABs of “made up title -> implausible sources of confusion”. DABs are between similarly or identically named things, not what we assume Wp:Randy in Boise is likely to need correcting on. Dronebogus (talk) 21:42, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: as a non-notable and implausible misnomer. ––FormalDude (talk) 16:26, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep That it gets accessed at all shows that it is useful. I think it should have a short sentence explaining that there is NO president of Canada, and that the user might be looking for one of the below. It should be clear that it is referring to possible correct terms from one that is not correct. Lamona (talk) 04:03, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, this is a DAB page, not an article, it is a navigational tool. The page is not an implausible target. And it does not mislead readers to help them navigate to the article they are actually looking for. It's not like this is an article on a non-existent office. --Privybst (talk) 12:09, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KSAWikipedian (talk) 13:28, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Prime Minister of Canada People don't use "President of Canada" to refer to "Monarchy of Canada", so the DAB is unnecessary. As Dronebogus says, Wikipedia doesn't need to invent these kinds of confusions. A simple redirect will suffice. Keeping the DAB would more likely create confusion by giving the appearance that "President of Canada" is an actual thing that applies to multiple roles. Retinalsummer (talk) 16:00, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Prime Minister of Canada no need for a dab but a redirect is fine. Pawnkingthree (talk) 16:40, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. One may indeed be ignorant of Canada's political system, but they should still understand that not every country has a president. Also, WP is a source of knowledge and isn not supposed to encourage ignorance by that kind of redirecting. --Suitskvarts (talk) 17:50, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- There is no president of Canada. A redirect does not help here because the role served by a president (as in the United States) overlaps with the functions of the Prime Minister and the Governor General. David Stargell (talk) 02:45, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per Retinalsummer and Suitskvarts. Typo redirects have a long and noble history. De Guerre (talk) 10:45, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Prime Minister of Canada. This page was originally a redirect for well over a decade. Turning it into a disambiguation page was a mistake, because disambiguation is for articles with similar titles, not for related concepts. But deletion is not needed or justified, because it was a perfectly useful redirect for a long time and should be again. --RL0919 (talk) 16:58, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@RL0919 most of the time this decade it targeted Monarchy of Canada and not Prime Minister of Canada, see [1]. Privybst (talk) 17:07, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but that is not correct. Since it was created it has been a redirect for over 15 years. For just under 7 of those years it redirected to Prime Minister of Canada. Monarchy of Canada was the target for about 4.5 years, Republicanism in Canada for about 3.6 years, and Governor-General of Canada for about a day. Regardless of the target for the redirect, it should not be deleted because you chose to turn it into a DAB page a couple of weeks ago. --RL0919 (talk) 17:23, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As you could see above, I am also against deletion. Privybst (talk) 17:52, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this useless DAB. Canada does not have a president. Is there an article for King of the United States of America? This is excessive. It imposes one country's system on how we look at others. It is useless because nobody looking for those articles, with one possible exception, would search for President of Canada. Doczilla _{@SUPERHEROLOGIST} 21:42, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Prime Minister of Canada.4meter4 (talk) 07:32, 20 September 2022 (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.