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
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The result was no consensus. This could possibly have been adjudged a "keep", but the bottom line is that there is not sufficient consensus to delete this article. Discussion as to an appropriate move or merge can continue on the article's talk page.
ATraintalk07:51, 5 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep -- This article was nominated for deletion based on an assertion of
WP:NPOV issues. Those issues will be resolved with references. The article will eventually be MOVEd to
Trump nominees who withdrew. I suspect we will discover in retrospect that this administration suffered a higher attrition rate of appointees and nominees than any other administration.citation neededoriginal research? (See, I saved you the work). Creation of the article is BOLD. Secondary sources exist. CNN quoted this: "relative to the number of confirmed people, Trump's percentage of failed nominations is very high," with numbers that followed. More references will follow. In the mean time, we should not lose this article.
Rhadow (
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11:55, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment I agree with Rhadow. Other administrations don't need a list because they don't have controversial descisions to put controversial people in government positions. AFAICR no other administration has had the problems dishing out the spoils that the current one has.
L3X1(distænt write)15:55, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
I, on the other hand, disagree with both
@L3X1 and
@Rhadow. I find their proposals partisan and selective, and based on their own
personal points of view, which their own laughably self-righteous and POV rationales confirm:
"I suspect we will discover in retrospect that this administration suffered a higher attrition rate of appointees and nominees than any other administration.citation neededoriginal research? (See, I saved you the work). Creation of the article is BOLD.")
and
"Other administrations don't need a list because they don't have controversial descisions to put controversial people in government positions."
Ummm, can anyone say
CRYSTAL and
OR?? If you create such an article list for Trump, then one should be created for every POTUS (FDR, Reagan, Nixon, and Clinton would appear particularly apropos, but ALL POTUSES should be covered in the interests of fairness and consistency).
Quis separabit?22:21, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Upon further (though relatively shallow) digging, most of the other POTUS's seem to only have these issues regarding Supreme Court appointees, not for the Cabinet and other positions. I'm sorry if I appear self-righteous, but I think calling OSE to be just as big a non-solution: This can't exist till everything else that probably should exist exists. As for NPOV, the facts are that Trump nominated people for a position, and they withdrew.
L3X1(distænt write)23:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)reply
"most of the other POTUS's seem to only have these issues regarding Supreme Court appointees, not for the Cabinet and other positions." -- that does not sound either reliably sourced or genuinely investigative in nature. What's more, such a list is pointless, partisan, and divisive.
Quis separabit?01:40, 22 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Strong keep - As pointed out above by
Rhadow, the unusually high number of withdrawn nominations is based on observations in secondary sources and is not OR. The fact that other pages don't exist is not a good reason to delete this page. Not every presidency is the same or has the same issues. It's not unprofessional or political to simply create pages for notable events supported by secondary sources.
Shelbystripes (
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06:30, 22 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment -- This discussion has turned personal and partisan. There are plenty of other places to pursue it on the web, but not on an article talk page. Arguments based on
WP:OR,
WP:NPOV, or even
WP:CRYSTAL are fine. Please leave unprofessional, self-righteous, pointless, partisan, and divisive out of the conversation. If you wish to to add to the article that the current administration has been extraordinarily successful at placing appeals court nominees, that's fine. That's a fact.
Rhadow (
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12:07, 22 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep but improve - I agree to keep this article as mentioned by
Rhadow. The article looks a notable one and should be improved with adding references and the article hasn't been categorised yet.
Abishe (
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17:50, 22 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Move. Honestly, this just doesn't need to be its own article. Moving to
Political appointments by Donald Trump#Announced positions from which candidates have withdrawn seems like a perfectly fine solution to me for all the reasons listed here. The fact are (1) this does not need to be its own article as they don't exist for other presidential administrations, (2) the Trump Administration for whatever reason (even if it's coincidental) has had an above average number of officials withdraw their nominations, and (3) this content could be better served to readers within the context of the article on political appointments of the administration in general. We have an article on
the spooky similarities between JFK and Lincoln, so I am confident that a simple move is all we need here. Thank you all for the discussion, and I hope to receive your feedback. ―Matthew J. Long-Talk-☖21:40, 27 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete- Does not comply with
WP:NPOV. Why does Trump get a special article about this? To say that Trump has "unusually high number of nominees" is not accurate. The CNN article that is referenced mentions that Obama had a similar number of withdrawn nominees. It even says "This number is not unprecedented". Also in the CNN article is the fact that Trump nominated less people overall. Trump is then quoted explaining that he doesn't intend to fill many of the positions because they're not necessary. The CNN article also doesn't detail how many withdrawn nominees presidents had in their first year before Obama. How many did either Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, etc. have? We don't know.--
Rusf10 (
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04:31, 29 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep -- Sufficiently notable and sourced. Trump's administration is unique in this regard, so the list is worth keeping. The merge, if any, can be discussed on the article's Talk page.
K.e.coffman (
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02:21, 1 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete lots of nominees withdraw, for lots of reasons. Considering how many people get nominated to office by the president, this is just a bad idea for an article.
John Pack Lambert (
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01:16, 2 January 2018 (UTC)reply
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