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 I can find no evidence that this VfD was ever properly listed in accordance with Wikipedia:Deletion process. Further, the results seems to be no consensus to delete (three keep, two delete, and one merge). I am therefore closing this. If anyone disagrees, please start a (new) proper VfD. Bovlb 05:29:32, 2005-08-24 (UTC)
Redundant. As the only de facto heads of state mentioned are Governors-General the need for a new article independent of that one is not evident. Homey 21:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
A series of contributors have mentioned de-facto heads of state but wrongly suggested that a de-facto head of state is the same as a head of state, whereas in reality it is merely someone who acts like a head of state, not someone who is a head of state. It is becoming tedious constantly having to correct articles and explain in articles and on talk pages what the difference is. This article was created to give a link which can be used to explain to readers of an article what the term de facto head of state means, and even more importantly, what it does not mean, rather than having to explain it piecemeal over and over again in individual articles. It is a perfectly valid article. It so happens that the principal examples of de facto heads of state are governors-general. But that is totally irrelevant to whether it should have an article or now. All this article does is explain what a much used (and much misused term) in articles here actually means. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 22:07, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]