Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Communist Party of India (Tashkent group)


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The result was delete. ST47 (talk) 23:22, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Communist Party of India (Tashkent group)

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The article creation is based on the premise of one of the POVs on the early history of the Indian communist movement. When CPI began to fracture, dispute arose over the early history. CPI(M) maintains 1920 as the foundation date, CPI (post-split) maintains 1925 as foundation date. There has been plenty of debate on this, and it would be better to have an article on the early stages of party-building that reflects different perspectives. There are reasons to question 1920 as foundation date for CPI, but likewise one can question whether CPI as a party really began in 1925 as the movement continued to lack a functional central organization and program. (I began a draft at Draft:Foundation of CPI trying to gather material for both of the main perspectives on the question of foundation of the party, but I lacked time to develop it properly so far) Soman (talk) 23:25, 13 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 23:48, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 23:49, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 23:51, 13 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTDIR and WP:SOAP. We are not a directory of every splinter group. Bearian (talk) 21:27, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment, to elaborate a bit further. I perceive that the creation of the article has a political motive, to be able to exclude M. N. Roy as founder of the Communist Party of India or to exclude the 1920-1925 history of the party from the main CPI Wikipedia article (see ). Notably the present-day CPI (to which the article creator appears to be linked) upholds that view, but its part of a move to rewrite the party history in the 1950s to emphasize the national character of the party. This move was never recognized by other tendencies of the Indian communist movement (CPI(M) and the CPI(ML) factions). The description of the early party history in the main CPI article needs to be balanced and include different perspectives. Considering that this issue has been raised on the talk page at Talk:Communist_Party_of_India and Talk:Communist_Party_of_India the better option would have continued the debate rather than unilaterally creating what essentially constitutes a POVFORK. --Soman (talk) 22:35, 14 October 2020 (UTC)


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