Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dean of the United States Senate
per . - The topic -- the Senator with the longest continuous service -- meets . This is an article naming issue rather than a deletion issue. The trouble with the article name using "Dean" is that, unless a reliable source referred to the listed Senator as "Dean", that Senator should not be listed in the Wikipedia article. That would result in an incomplete List of United States Senators with the longest continuous service. Most of the sources merely talk about United States Senate and Howard Dean (e.g., "Because the fact is that on October 6th, five days before we voted in the United States Senate, Howard Dean said") or mention "appointment of Rep. Dean Heller to the United States Senate." However, I found a "dean" source for John C. Stennishttp://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/31/us/mississippi-republicans-plan-rare-effort-to-defeat-stennis.html New York Times, John Warner (from FOX: O'Reilly Factor May 28, 2007: Critics Lay into Hillary Clinton's Election Chances), Robert Byrdhttp://m.npr.org/story/104880055 NPRhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/28/president-obama-loss-senator-robert-byrd-a-voice-principle-and-reason Whitehouse.com So, what it comes down to is to either delete everything in the List of Deans table except for John C. Stennis, John Warner, and Robert Byrd and keep the beltway-insider-clever, but-does-not-meet Wikipedia:Article titles title, "Dean of the United States Senate," or keep the list intact and use an article title, such as List of United States Senators with the longest continuous service. Per , Wikipedia is not the place to popularize terms such as Dean of the United States Senate and  requires a reliable source referring to a specific Senator as "Dean" to identify that Senator in a list of Deans of the United State Senate
— User:Uzma, 13:12, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTNEO||WP:LIST||WP:NOTNEO||WP:V (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)