Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of children of presidents of the United States

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The result was keep‎. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:37, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of children of presidents of the United States[edit]

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Most presidential children are not notable in their own right. Interstellarity (talk) 23:43, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

weak Delete – A topic like List of notable children of presidents of the United States is not empty, but would necessarily feel incomplete. The current article has a lot of unsourced material and, in its current form, that would be my argument for deletion. If the presidents' pages include information about children, the sources used to verify that information could most likely be referenced in the list article. For better or worse, the concept of notability by osmosis comes to life here because United States presidents always have book-length biographies and those biographies most always discuss presidential children in enough depth for them to be considered notable in their own right. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:06, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Seems to be a considerable number of them with articles already: Category:Children of presidents of the United States. Ajf773 (talk) 10:38, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people, Politics, and United States of America. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:04, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Looks to me that a good number of them have pages or the ability to have pages (e.g., Malia Obama could realistically have one). Also, WP:NLIST is easily met (e.g., the books All the Presidents' Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families and Children Of The Presidents: George Washington to Donald Trump: Includes Legitimate, Illegitimate, Alleged, and Secret Children of Our 45 Presidents). That seems pretty slam dunk keep to me. Why? I Ask (talk) 21:56, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Per Why? I Ask, plus, this article has existed since 2007 and gets almost 300 views per day. Of course the children of the POTUS are notable, precisely for being children of the POTUS. Most may not be sufficiently notable to warrant dedicated articles to them individually, but that’s beside the point. There is always information in RS about the children of the POTUS. Deleting this article would be detrimental to WP. —В²C ☎ 12:04, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Members of the First Family regularly receive coverage as a group, making this a notable topic. Reywas92^Talk 18:32, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Why? I Ask, В²C, and Reywas92. Sal2100 (talk) 15:41, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Why? I Ask Wiki O'Ryan (talk) 06:39, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Article does seem to pass WP:NLIST with reliable sources (as mentioned by Why? I Ask). ULPS (talk) 00:28, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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