Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Commonwealth Democratic Party




 * 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 delete and redirect. BD2412 T 07:11, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Commonwealth Democratic Party

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Non-notable political party. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NORG. Curbon7 (talk) 03:32, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Politics,  and Caribbean. Curbon7 (talk) 03:32, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - No SIGCOV found in my WP:BEFORE, only passing mentions in lists of parties involved in Bahamian elections, fails WP:NORG. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FOARP (talk • contribs) 08:31, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to 1982 Bahamian general election. The article literally has no more information than is in the results table of the only election it ever contested before disappearing.  Even in a county as small as the Bahamas, 13 votes is laughably insignificant, bearing in mind the total membership of the party must be included in those 13. SpinningSpark 17:07, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete and/or redirect to 1982 Bahamian general election. Nothing more here than what is already at that article. AusLondonder (talk) 22:38, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment - For a redirect to make sense, instead of deletion, then this would have to be a plausible search term for people looking for 1982 Bahamian general election. It simply isn't. Indeed, it is much more likely that people searching for this might be looking for the "Democratic Party" (of which there are many) of any other country or region that is known as a "Commonwealth" (of which there are dozens). To pick one example, they just as (un)likely to be looking for Democratic Party of Virginia as they are for the subject of this article - and if your response to that is "but that's far-fetched", then it is equally far-fetched that people are searching for a non-notable party that received 13 votes in a Bahamian election 40 years ago. FOARP (talk) 07:58, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I disagree that redirecting is going to mislead users looking for another "Democratic Party". That will only happen if they also have "Commonwealth" in their names.  Your example certainly doesn't have that and neither do any of the other entries at the Democratic Party disambiguation page.  It is not true that we should only create redirects if the user is looking for the target page.  We create them when the target page has information on the search term, whether or not the reader might be interested in the rest of the page (WP:RPURPOSE bullet #15).  A prime example of this non-notable music tracks being redirected to the album on which they appear or the page of the artist if the album is not notable either.  We have hordes of those.  Anyway, I don't see how anyone searching for this party would not want to land on 1982 Bahamian general election being as that is the only thing the party has ever done. SpinningSpark 16:25, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete (dictionary stub article) and "Redirect": to 1982 Bahamian general election where it is mentioned. The last I saw redirects were cheap so no big expense. --  Otr500 (talk) 04:15, 4 May 2022 (UTC)


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