Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Death in office

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The result was draftify‎. ✗plicit 14:21, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Death in office

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No encyclopedic content. I am not aware of this general subject discussed in sources --Altenmann >talk 06:13, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists of people and Politics. Shellwood (talk) 09:14, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as SYNTH. Mccapra (talk) 20:49, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and improve; barring that, move to draft. The concept of death in office, and the wide variety of rules for addressing such an occurrence, seems fairly obviously notable and encyclopedic. BD2412 T 01:03, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Draftify per BD2412, since the page mainly needs improvement in sources but is otherwise notable enough to be page-worthy. JTZegers (talk) 01:20, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Or maybe draftify if someone actually wants to work on it. The issue with "wide variety of rules for addressing such an occurrence" is that these rules apply to any Casual vacancy, I doubt there are many if any rules that relate specifically to when an incumbent dies rather than resigns. Most of the page is just lists, but there are other pages for that already. Reywas92^Talk 02:55, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Casual vacancy applies to holders of seats in an assembly-type body, but death in office happens to kings, popes, presidents, judges, mayors, governors, and many other vocations. Unlike a resignation, it is far less often under the control of the officeholder. BD2412 T 02:22, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's true, but there's not a difference for how a vacancy for governor, judge, or president is treated if they died or resigned either. But still, there's nothing in this article that's specifically about deaths in office rather than vacancies besides the lists of who died in office, so a TNT would be required. — Reywas92^Talk 16:27, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete we already have List of heads of state and government who died in office. This is duplicative. SportingFlyer T·C 23:06, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- That would be a subtopic of an article covering deaths in office of people who were not exclusively heads of state and government. BD2412 T 23:16, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.