Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 United States presidential election controversies and attacks
As predicted, (and as always happens with articles of this nature) it has simply become a |coatrack for critics of the three current candidates and a POV fork for them to add opinions that they might have been prevented from adding to the candidate articles.  The fact that there is POV against all three candidates is not "balance" it is simply an example of an article with excessive POV.  Consider this, if the article were only about one candidate, not all three, would it be acceptable?  Would we allow an article that was simply a list of attacks against a living person?  Unlikely.  So why would it be acceptable to combine three such articles into one?  Further, it is apparent that most of this article has nothing to do with the election.  A number of the "criticisms and attacks" such as the Keating Five scandal, Whitewater, Cattle Futures, etc. have not even been mentioned in this campaign and the cites are from a decade ago or earlier. And why is there no mention of any of the other candidates who are no longer in the race?  It's because nobody is gunning for those candidates anymore, further evidence that this is simply an attack forum for political opponents rather than an encyclopedic article on the 2008 election (are we going to drop Clinton or Obama from this article when one of them emerges as the primary victor?) This article cannot be salvaged since the very idea of it is flawed.  It should be deleted immediately
— User:Loonymonkey, 21:14, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:COATRACK (Wikipedia:Coatrack articles)