Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/President of the United Kingdom

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This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. Woohookitty 9 July 2005 08:14 (UTC)

[edit] President of the United Kingdom

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland does not have a president" . . . so why have an article on this nonexistent office? There are no links to this page and most of the 600-odd hits are for things like "president of the United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association".—Charles P. (Mirv) 30 June 2005 16:08 (UTC)

  • Delete - Uk doesn't have any active volcanoes either, but I don't see a list of them. A silly article devoid of purpose. Naturenet | Talk 30 June 2005 16:17 (UTC)
  • No vote The article shouldn't have links to it because of it is. I could see how it would be useful for the average American searcher. Then again that is just US-centric type of article so I'm not sure. Falphin 30 June 2005 16:19 (UTC)
  • Delete pointless article. David | Talk 30 June 2005 16:22 (UTC)
  • No vote. The original text of this article before its first deletion read "I want to find out the names of the Presidents of England." A case can be made that if one user was trying to look up the names of the presidents of England, then others might. It's a plausible mistake by someone poorly informed or U.S.-centric or both, and arguably it's useful to have some kind of dab or redirect in place, much as we do for frequent or plausible typos. It's not a very strong case. The biggest problem is I'm not sure why they would be likely to type "President of the United Kingdom" rather than "President of England" (or, given assumptions about the kind of user doing the typing, "Prezident of Ingland.") I don't care whether the article is deleted or not, so no vote. Dpbsmith (talk) 30 June 2005 16:40 (UTC)
  • Sounds like the original was a speedy candidate under the 'attempts to communicate with title' criteria. David | Talk 30 June 2005 16:48 (UTC)
  • I'd be concerned if we started accepting all articles for all possible mis-spellings, misconceptions and mispronounciations. That would open up an infinite, and unhelpful, article space. The user who is competent to search for, say, the President of England, will almost certainly find the answer to the question they failed to ask properly on Wikipedia (or elsewhere) soon enough by looking at the existing, correctly titled resources. Naturenet | Talk 30 June 2005 16:50 (UTC)
  • Delete Elfguy 30 June 2005 16:50 (UTC)
  • Delete DJ Clayworth 30 June 2005 17:07 (UTC)
  • Delete. Comes off as anti-monarchist POV. Maybe a redirect to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom can be left behind for anyone who doesn't know better. 23skidoo 30 June 2005 18:17 (UTC)
  • Delete and redirect to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Dcarrano 30 June 2005 18:50 (UTC)
  • Delete. We have a decent page on Prime Minister of the United States, but unless some usage of the title "President of the UK" can be demonstrated this should go. - SimonP June 30, 2005 19:04 (UTC)
  • Delete as non-verifiable. After all, Queen Elizabeth II is not exactly an obscure person. Capitalistroadster 1 July 2005 01:33 (UTC)
  • Delete, seems silly K1Bond007 July 1, 2005 02:45 (UTC)
  • Delete until the UK becomes a republic - unverifiable. JamesBurns 1 July 2005 03:42 (UTC)
  • Delete or redirect to Oliver Cromwell? Lord Protector is close to President. Pburka 1 July 2005 04:48 (UTC)
  • Delete, the term is an oxymoron. Hiding 1 July 2005 09:37 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since a few schoolchildren may look for it and redirects are cheap. Jonathunder 2005 July 1 21:14 (UTC)
  • Delete (though the temptation to say "keep for the benefit of Americans" is rather overwhelming...) -- Francs2000 | Talk 2 July 2005 14:32 (UTC)
  • Delete, and PLEASE no redirect to "Prime Minister", that would be misleading jamesgibbon 6 July 2005 19:41 (UTC)
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