Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates
It would be one thing if a page were created for a John McCain or an Al Gore or a John Kerry or a Bob Dole administration, since those presidential administrations will never exist and therefore will never be in power.  However, it's obvious that Barack Obama will be the next president, and it's also obvious that the Supreme Court of the United States is one of the single biggest marks that a president can leave from a legacy standpoint.  (It's not like this article is Barack Obama Secretary of Health and Human Services candidates, for instance.)  And with an 88-year-old justice, another in lousy health and another widely reported to be disgruntled, it's reasonable to expect that a thorough online encyclopedia would contain a thoughtful list of possible candidates, raised solely by experts in a position to know and published in respected news sources with outstanding reporting.  With all due respect, this is hardly "pure speculation."  And there are plenty of reliable sources, including those quoted in these articles who have direct ties to the Obama administration, like Cass Sunstein.  This article easily meets point 1 of , since a Barack Obama Supreme Court vacancy is indisputably notable, and that a Barack Obama Supreme Court vacancy is almost certain to occur during his presidency.  Wikipedia should be prepared for such an occurrence, which is why this article was created.  What an atrocious misapplication of policy
— User:Jarvishunt, 22:01, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:FUTURE (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)