Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 Barack Obama assassination scare in Tennessee
I am the primary author of the Denver and Tennessee articles; I've played no part in the Hawaii one. I think JB500000 means well here, but this isn't the answer. First of all, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 Obama assassination plot in Hawaii|there is already an AFD for the Hawaii article ongoing, even as we speak. It's downright nonsensical to start ''another'' AFD for it in the meantime. Secondly, it seems as if JB50k is advocating a merge of these articles into one Obama assassination article. Such a discussion should happen on talk pages, not AFD. I think there is some merit to the idea of a Barack Obama assassination plots article, or something of the same name. There have been ''numerous'' other assassination scares regarding President Obama (see http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=clsops_papers here for a few). However, even ''if'' an article like that were to be made, deleting the Denver and Tennessee articles would not be the right answer. Contrary to what JB50k said, those two plots were more serious and more advanced than the Hawaii one, or any of those others that have popped up along the way, like http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/02/11/slain-neo-nazi-angry-over-obama-victory-reportedly-prepared-dirty-bomb-components/ this or http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/slate-belt/index.ssf/2009/12/berks_county_man_who_allegedly.html this. The Denver/Tennessee plots should of course be included in a round-up page about all the Obama threats, but the fact is that the Denver/Tennessee plots received far more coverage in |reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject, which of course is |a big part of the general notability guidelines. The Denver/Tennessee articles could be ''summarized'' on an overall threats page, with a link to the Template:Main|main articles. To simply merge them into the Obama threats article would outweigh everything else, and raise problems as far as . And, finally, as I've already stated, the Denver and Tennessee articles satisfy otability, and so a deletion or merge is not appropriate. Furthermore, both are well-written, well-sourced articles, for which their notability has already been thoroughly discussed and vetted. Both are good articles (see Talk:2008 Barack Obama assassination scare in Denver/GA1 and Talk:2008 Barack Obama assassination scare in Tennessee/GA1). The Denver article has already Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 Barack Obama assassination scare in Denver|survived a deletion attempt ''within this last month'', which makes its nomination particularly inappropriate. And the Denver article is a Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2008 Barack Obama assassination scare in Denver/archive1|featured article candidate, although I'm saddened to suspect its FAC is going to get derailed by these constant, unfair deletion attempts. Sorry for the long-winded nature of this post, but the Denver/Tennessee should not be deleted
— User:Hunter, 02:06, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SOURCE||WP:N||WP:TOOLONG||WP:N (Wikipedia:Verifiability)