Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Senior G8 leader

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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The result was Withdrawn.--Carabinieri 20:12, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Senior G8 leader

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For one, "Senior G8 leader" is a neologism. No google or google book hits for this term. The article would have to be moved to List of past G8 heads of government by time spent in office or something similar, which would be nothing more than a really trivial statistical list. We don't have List of G8 heads of government by height or whatever either. Carabinieri 20:12, 18 March 2007 (UTC) Withdrawn.--Carabinieri 20:12, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep, this is part of the order of precedence at G8 summits. It governs the ordering of the flags[1], the order of the leaders in photographs, and some other matters. It is also useful for determining who is at their first or last summit, which both have some significance. -- Dhartung | Talk 23:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
This seems to be an important argument for the terms notability, and should be included in the article. Also, there should be some source verifying both the concept and that this title goes to the holder of this honor (of course multiple titles could exist). Smmurphy(Talk) 21:56, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Shimeru 08:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I wish to make clear I was not arguing for the title of the article, which should probably be renamed per the nom, but clearly List of current G8 heads of government or state by seniority is correct, this is current not past. In any case, here are some other sources where the order of precedence is covered, or the "longest serving" head of state/government is pointed out: [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The same metric is sometimes used for the meetings of the Finance Ministers, but I don't think we need to go that far (much less media attention, for one).-- Dhartung | Talk 19:50, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Having looked at those sources, I'll withdraw my nomination. But the title you suggested also is not really correct. The article does not list the longest serving heads of state/government by the length of time they served, but the heads of state/government who were the longest serving in powere at the time they were in power, which is really confusing.--Carabinieri 20:12, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
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