Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Calls for Joe Biden to suspend his 2024 United States presidential campaign

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was redirect‎ to Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign#Calls for Biden to withdraw. Most of the Keep views focused on the amount of news coverage the topic received, and its political importance. Both are valid factors when determining journalistic importance, but not in establishing encyclopedic notability. Claiming notability comes from this being an unprecedented event is also not supported by our P&G.

Some participants called for waiting until November before we decide. Such an a posteriori determination of notability goes against our guidelines, as some here correctly noted. In the event that this topic gains notability in the future, nothing stops us from restoring the article from under the redirect. Discarding the !votes not based on P&G, we're left with a rough consensus to redirect.

There was a separate consensus since the AfD was opened to move the Calls for Biden to step aside section in both 2024 United States presidential election and 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries to Joe_Biden_2024_presidential_campaign, so I picked the latter as the target most likely to reflect the intention of the Redirect views. That shouldn't prevent any editor from selectively merging content to the two other articles (or to List of Democrats who oppose the Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign), or if consensus exists, changing the target of this redirect. Owen× 15:06, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Calls for Joe Biden to suspend his 2024 United States presidential campaign (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)
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This is not a notable topic. This is an extended news cycle. WP:NOTNEWS and WP:RECENTISM apply. It's also too likely to devolve into a WP:POVFORK. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:18, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Extremely important part of the 2024 election cycle that will 100% be relevant in 10 years time, no matter if he stays in or not. HadesTTW (he/him • talk) 16:31, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No it won’t. If he drops, the main article would be Joe Biden’s suspended 2024 United States presidential campaign if anything; people “calling” on him to drop out would be less relevant than the actual action of him dropping out. If he continues to be the nominee and even wins, nobody will care and an article would seem unnecessary. Same as when people called for Trump to drop out in 2016, but he ended up winning; we don’t have an article for that. Prcc27 (talk) 17:44, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We didn't have the massive revolt against a sitting president after a primary season which he effortlessly won in 2016. Of course people were calling on Trump to drop out in 2016, he had a bunch of primary opponents and disapproval from past Republicans like the Bushes. The Biden situation is far different, significant, and has nearly no precedent- except for LBJ in 1968, which could easily use an article. HadesTTW (he/him • talk) 05:42, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wait / Weak Keep -I think original nominator suggests likely to devolve into WP:POVFORK as a reason to delete. Likely to devolve into WP:POVFORK should not be an argument to avoid documenting on wikipedia. I also think that its unlikely any of us has the political foresight OR neutrality to properly comment on this topic until at least a month or so after the debate. A fair amount of supporter for Biden seem to be voting to delete, and supporters of removing biden suggest keep. I think notability of this as a lasting event or just another news cycle will depend deeply on time. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 18:31, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with List of Democrats opposed to Joe Biden's campaign; maybe make a segment for non-Democrats and/or rename the page to "List of those opposed to Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign. EPBeatles (talk) 23:14, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It is widely covered and there's no reason to believe that it won't continue to grow in notability. Swinub (talk) 09:54, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.