Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Todd Akin rape and pregnancy controversy
mdash; Yes, this scandal has received significant coverage, but has it developed into something with lasting significance? That has yet to be established; see . As such, this article exists for the purpose of heightening the implications of his comments (which were extraordinarily misguided even by the most vanilla interpretation of them, although I do think he misspoke), thus giving undue weight against an individual. I do not consider that to be consistent with , which in principle protects even the most despicable of people from defamation or negative bias (not necessarily suggesting that Akin himself is despicable, but rather to illustrate my point). Make no mistake about it, I was ''disgusted'' by what he said, but until and unless this controversy snowballs into something with longterm ramifications, I see no reason why it needs anything beyond a subsection at Akin's main article, where I think it could be given sufficient coverage
— User:Kurtis, 14:01, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:EFFECT||WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Notability)