Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States presidential election in Benton County, Indiana, 2012

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The result was delete. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:57, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

United States presidential election in Benton County, Indiana, 2012[edit]

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Usually this kind of information is put in a section on politics/voter registration statistics/voting habits in the last elections on the article on a county or municipality (usually right next to census data). This article is superfluous and ought to be merged into Benton County, Indiana per WP:MERGE ColonelHenry (talk) 04:43, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Indiana-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:17, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:17, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:17, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 01:00, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. The United States has 3144 counties and county equivalents, and we can't expect to create and maintain that many articles about every presidential election. Presidential elections are customarily analyzed at the state level where electoral college votes are allocated, not at the county level. The exceptions are Nebraska and Maine, where electoral college votes are allocated partially by congressional district. County by county analysis of presidential votes is not of any significance, in my view. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 07:03, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. I mean, really. No such user (talk) 10:20, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No secondary source coverage. If no one else has written about this topic, Wikipedia should not be the first. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:09, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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