i agree with you wikipedia does need to make a review of its policies and role it wants to serve as a web encyclopedia here was something i said in the talk page of the 'a more perfect union' i believe that most of time the argument is about this main issue of 'is wikipedia is being used for publicity ' and not an argument about whether it is just an 'encyclopedia of important events or topics occuring or occured' i am sure once the presidential race is over there would be no such argument of the deletion of this article whatsoever and people discussing about this speech would be doing so solely because of its content its linguistic delivery and other reasons solely for historical and educational reasons most of the times people are forgotten but what they have done or said makes them remembered today there are million google hits for the 'i have a dream' speech and million for 'martin luther king' but only million hits for 'i have a dream martin luther king' search suggesting that many people especially in non american countries perhaps would know the speech but not even knowing who said it in the first place by contrast there are only million hits for 'a more perfect union barack obama' thousand hits for 'barack obama speech on race' but million hits for 'barack obama' my argument is that i implore wikipedia users to please let go of this dilemna and constant debate of trying to keep wikipedia non publicity and solely information because by deleting articles some wikipedia editors find is adding publicty to one person named barack obama they are also deleting something which is so much potentially informational for many other billions of people who just want information on this particular speech i say let the people decide how they filter their information because the election only objectively affects million americans but the race issue affects everybody on the planet and this speech is a key speech on that matter msethisuwan talk