Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of controversial elections

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 01:37, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of controversial elections

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There is never going to be an objective criteria of "controversial election" defined by multiple independent, reliable, and secondary sources. Even if we move to the more narrow "contested election" criteria, where only the outcome is in dispute, we still run into the problem of what counts as a dispute. Does a recount and a small protest mean an election counts as "contested" automatically? What is the scope of this page? I do not see how it would help to group national and subnational elections together. This page should be deleted and possibly converted into a category if we can agree on certain criteria. Bremps... 02:05, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, Do not think controversial elections should be categorized as like this UzbukUdash (talk) 05:04, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Impossibly broad, undefined category. List has no clear selection criteria. Most entries are unsourced. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 06:22, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Lists. Shellwood (talk) 10:12, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: All elections can be considered controversial through reliable sources. Why? I Ask (talk) 10:18, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Procyon117 (talk) 11:40, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm not averse to deleting the current list, as its scope seems a bit arbitrary to me. But I think it would be possible to define proper criteria (for example, "multiple reliable sources have alleged that electoral fraud took place to an extent that changed the outcome"), and with good criteria the list would be a sensible break-out navigational list from Electoral fraud. As a navigational list, it shouldn't need independent referencing as it should only point to elections with their own articles, which already include referenced discussion of the controversy and fraud. Elemimele (talk) 12:21, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. and others. Sal2100 (talk) 17:31, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Any LIST containing controversial as a main piece in the title of the article deserves additional scrutiny to make sure the subject as a whole is adequately covered or the selection criteria is narrowly defined. Otherwise, there is the tendency to violate WP:OR or WP:NPOV. In this specific case, there is no selection criteria, violating WP:LSC. --Enos733 (talk) 21:10, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and rename to "List of Contested Elections" or "List of Challenged Elections", and develop objective inclusion criteria based on notability, office, consequences, court involvement, etc. When I created this article 12 years ago, I didn't like the name and I'm surprised the name stuck around for so long. Also, I recommend not deciding this issue in the midst of an important US election. Sparkie82 (t•c) 22:36, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's something here if there's clearly defined criteria - while this article isn't appropriate, I have no problem if it is userifyed and tightened. SportingFlyer T·C 03:50, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:NLIST (no sources as a class), is WP:SYNTH, is WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 07:15, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete it. Like you said, every election in the history of elections could be considered controversial. TortivEditor (talk) 16:58, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Every election is controversial. Azuredivay (talk) 14:06, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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