Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aam Aadmi Party Kerala


 * 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 redirect to Aam Aadmi Party.  MBisanz  talk 21:43, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Aam Aadmi Party Kerala

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Minor branch party with no elected members. Fails WP:NOTABLE. RaviC (talk) 18:27, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Neutral. The Aam Aadmi Party is notable as a party in India in general, as they are the majority party in the Delhi Legislative Assembly and also hold a few seats in the national parliament (Lok Sabha). However, I do not know whether that implies that the other state branches of the party are likely to be notable as well. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:46, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:26, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:26, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:26, 29 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep As a state branch of a notable party it already has some claim to notability. The coverage at Indian newspapers search confirms that for me. AusLondonder (talk) 22:21, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The Electoral Commission of India designate the AAP as a state party in two states, Delhi and Punjab. The party is not designated as a national party and only achieved 5% of votes according to the article in question itself, so fails the notability rationale. The article is almost entirely unreferenced. Furthermore, no other Indian political parties have pages for each state they are present in. --RaviC (talk) 08:21, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Beg to differ with RaviC on that as we do have Category:Indian National Congress by state. Although we should note that INC and AAM's internal structures of state-wise groups are to be studied to gauge this. But just going by GNG, this can simply be merged together. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 07:34, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah, I hadn't seen those articles for the INC. Nevertheless, the INC is a national party with elected legislators across India whereas the AAP is only a state party. --RaviC (talk) 16:05, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete or Move to Draft or Merge to Aam Aadmi Party . The article is a mess and looks more like a propaganda page exercise. No independent notability of Kerela Unit apart from what is inherited from national unit. ChunnuBhai (talk) 18:23, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MelanieN (talk) 23:18, 6 June 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Consider Merge and Redirect as my searches have found some links but there is still not the obvious certainty whether this can in fact be independently notable for its own article. SwisterTwister   talk  22:55, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  06:31, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment The Aam Aadmi Party Kerala article doesn't assert that it has won a seat from any election, but the Aam Aadmi Party article does: "In May 2015, the AAP won a seat in the municipal bye-election from Cherthalai-Arthungal in Alappuzha district of Kerala. The AAP candidate, Tomi Ellessery,  defeated the CPM candidate by 3 votes.
 * So the premise of the deletion nomination (that it has no elected candidates) seems not to be exactly correct. -- do ncr  am  16:51, 14 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete Not notable enough. Definitely Too soon. Coderzombie (talk) 17:57, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, this is NOT a political party but state branch of the political party. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  04:49, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, not a political party as such but a state branch of a national political party; we do not usually have separate articles in such cases. Nsk92 (talk) 16:20, 25 June 2016 (UTC)


 * 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.