Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Family of Barack Obama (2nd nomination)
I guess this nomination is motivated at least in part by the observation that articles such as this one are important tools for reigning in the growth of pseudo-biographies of the relatives of very notable people. In any case, that function alone is already sufficient reason to keep the article. The problem that Colonel Warden is describing can be solved by ''editing'' and by ''merging'' per eletion policy#Alternatives to deletion. I am slightly irritated that Colonel Warden did not think of this himself, given the explicit guidance in the first item of  to acquaint oneself with the deletion policy before nominating an article for deletion.That said, there ''are'' problems with this article. The apparent fact that Obama's mother is a sixteenth cousin of Queen Elizabeth II is of course very intriguing and is highly relevant to the noteworthy point that Obama's family tree is very international. But it seems to be built entirely on original research, and as far as I can tell not even the sources for the data used in this original research are indicated in the article. So this may have to go. Or maybe not. Maybe we should have a wider discussion about articles such as Genealogical relationships of Presidents of the United States or Line of succession to the British throne‎ (currently mentioning about 3,000 living people!), which all seem to have sourcing and notability/noteworthiness problems
— User:Hans, 09:30, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:D||WP:BEFORE (Wikipedia:Disambiguation)