Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International reactions to the 2020 United States presidential election

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The result was delete. Doczilla _{@SUPERHEROLOGIST} 22:32, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

International reactions to the 2020 United States presidential election

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International reactions to the 2020 United States presidential election (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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This is a flagrant violation of WP:NOTNEWS and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. The vast majority (read: I tried to fix it by removing them, but that would essentially have left not much of the article, so here we are) of the "reactions" listed are nothing but trivial and insignificant, nigh-generic expressions of congratulations, which got mentioned in some newspaper or the other (or often didn't even go that far: far too much of this is based solely on tweets). I'm not sure whether this was originally split-out from the main election article (maybe in a hope to avoid the flagcruft listing this has devolved into), but the few mentions which are significantly out-of-the-ordinary or otherwise noteworthy should probably be covered there, in a proper prose section, instead of attempting to fix the indiscriminate-trivial-stuff problem by not fixing it but moving it to another page.

In short, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, which is supposed to be a summary of the most important information about a topic, not a trivial collection of factoids like this. The page should probably be redirected, with maybe a very selective merge (this is not actually covered on the main article, although this is a very poor place to start from, so starting a short section there WP:TNT-style would be more appropriate) RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:50, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

• I'll add that a look at Category:International reactions to elections shows this looks pretty much like a textbook case of WP:BIAS and WP:RECENTISM (and probably some of those articles listed there also have the very same issues as this one). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:00, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
• Delete Per nom. There is no need to create "reaction" article about just every other political event because Wikipedia is not a WP:SOAPBOX. Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 11:09, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisted to consider an appropriate redirect or merge target as suggested by the nominator.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:57, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:39, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
• Delete A concise prose summary of types of reactions may be appropariate, but there is no need to catalogue the routine tweets and announcements every country makes about every other countries' elections, even a major US one. Reywas92^Talk 02:35, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

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