Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald Trump and handshakes
- 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 Speedy close per WP:SKCRIT #6. Wait until this is off the Main Page. I have no problem with this AfD, but per WP:SKCRIT, articles linked from the Main Page may not be nominated for deletion. (non-admin closure) epicgenius (talk) 20:08, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
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Politically biased. Not in compliance with WP:NPOV Eric Cable ! Talk 18:48, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
- Delete Moreover it is embarassing for an encyclopedia trying to be taken seriosly to have such an embarassingly stupid article about literally nothing. 93.36.190.141 (talk) 19:12, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
- Delete. Violates WP:BLP: "Biographies of living persons ("BLPs") must be written conservatively [...] This policy applies to any living person mentioned in a BLP, whether or not that person is the subject of the article, and to material about living persons in other articles and on other pages, including talk pages. [...] BLPs should be written responsibly, cautiously, and in a dispassionate tone, avoiding both understatement and overstatement.". Words such as "awkward" and "bizarre" and expressions such as "yank[ed] the judge towards him as if he were a pet dog on a leash" do not reflect a conservatively, responsibly, cautiously, and dispassionately written article. It should be noted that not everything published in a reliable source automatically lacks bias; WP:NEWSORG states this clearly: "News sources often contain both factual content and opinion content. [...] Whether a specific news story is reliable for a fact or statement should be examined on a case-by-case basis." --William Case Morris (talk) 19:19, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
- Is your BLP concern strictly the expressive language used by the authors of the cited sources? I ask because the BLP policy says, I would disagree that "the entire page is substantially of poor quality, primarily containing contentious material that is unsourced or poorly sourced". — fourthords | =Λ= | 19:42, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
- It is "substantially of poor quality". The entire article revolves around the idea that Donald Trump's handshakes are "awkward", "bizarre", "appall" others, prompt "memorable eye-rolls", "appear to painfully twist" arms, etc. I do not believe that such an article can be considered as nothing more than poor quality, at the very least (assuming good faith). --William Case Morris (talk) 20:01, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
- Is your BLP concern strictly the expressive language used by the authors of the cited sources? I ask because the BLP policy says, I would disagree that "the entire page is substantially of poor quality, primarily containing contentious material that is unsourced or poorly sourced". — fourthords | =Λ= | 19:42, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
- 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.