Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abraham Lincoln's Burial and Exhumation

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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was - kept

[edit] Abraham Lincoln's Burial and Exhumation

It's a copy-and-paste of section 7 of Abraham Lincoln, and doesn't appear to be part of an effort at breaking the article up into subsections. --Carnildo 08:43, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete - I noticed that too. Seems to have no point. ClockworkSoul 08:46, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Can we please hold off deleting this until some consensus is reached at the talk page of the Abraham Lincoln page? The main Lincoln page is quite long and concerted efforts have been made for months to break it up. See, eg., Abraham Lincoln's Sexuality, Abraham Lincoln on slavery, etc. NP And it is part of an effort at breaking the article into subsections, Carnildo. I really resent this page being listed for deletion and urge a KEEP vote. NP

I listed it because, at the time I came across it, it had an odd-looking title, it had been created by an anonymous user, it was a straight copy-and-paste, and it wasn't linked to by the Abraham Lincoln page, giving an overall look of being a newbie test. I listed it here rather than on "speedy deletion" just in case I was wrong. This is also why I typically wait a while before voting on a page I've listed for VfD. --Carnildo 22:55, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep supporting NP Kappa 16:37, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, establish consensus first, then start splitting things off. --fvw* 17:28, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

There now appears to be a consensus that this material belongs on a different page. So a delete vote at this point means that this information is non-encyclopedic, which I do not believe to be the case. NP

  • Keep, legitimate splitting of an article. — Ливай | ☺ 23:47, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, although where there is contention, Fvw's advice would usually be best followed.Dr Zen 02:00, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, Megan1967 03:11, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, it's an appropriate split and a helpful article, although consensus for it should have been reached on the main article's talk page first. Wyss 04:14, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, concur with Wyss's remarks. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:40, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

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