Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Invitation to the Inauguration of Barack Obama
to Barack Obama 2009 presidential inauguration. Everyone here !voting "Keep" needs to read #NEWS|this section of "What Wikipedia is Not" very carefully. This is a great article, with great sourcing and great prose. But it is not an encyclopedic topic. And despite what some people have insisted above, this article '''can''' be condensed down and merged, because it has minimal encyclopedic value. I would say that Sarah Palin's outfit, Hillary Clinton confirmation hearings, and the Obama family dog are just as notable, if not more, as they have all had a significant amount of news coverage and have an impact on today's political climate in the US. Yet I would vote to delete those as well, because the full breadth of their impact on the world could be covered in a few sentences at Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, and Family of Barack Obama, respectively. Sure, one could come up with paragraphs upon paragraphs discussing the brand choices of Palin's clothes, the exact timeline of objections and votes on Clinton's nomination, and the details of how one of the Obama children is allergic to dogs so they must get a hypoallergenic one but they still want to adopt from a shelter. But these can be cut out and reduced to their full encyclopedic value: a few sentences. This article has no impact on the world |except for the fact that it exists (existed?), which is very much NOT a criterion for inclusion in this encyclopedia. Could you imagine an article Invitation to the Inauguration of Millard Fillmore? That topic would be no less notable than this one
— User:Runningonbrains, 19:06, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:EVERYTHING (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)