Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Democratic Reform 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. Spartaz Humbug! 02:45, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Democratic Reform Party

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I cannot find any independent coverage of this political party, even in blogs. At present this page simply serves as an advert or platform for the party rather than a verifiable account of a political organisation. I propose that we delete this for now until reliable sources cover the party (probably if and when it moves from just having a webpage and Facebook presence), and replace the page with a disambiguation page to the pages I linked to in the hatnote. Fences &amp;  Windows  20:18, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Come back when you've been written about in other sources. Wikipedia is not a web host for campaign groups' manifestos. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 21:31, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I strongly disagree that this post be deleted. It cripples freedom of speech only to allow larger parties to have articles on Wikipedia. If I want to join a political party then one of my first points of reference is Wikipedia, for I wish to find an impartial source. Why should I be denied the right to find out about new parties? How are new parties ever to emerge if the people are denied access to information concerning them? Besides, even though I strongly disagree with the logic behind your reason for deleting this article, I have seen reference to it in several blogs. Indeed just in this last week two new groups (http://www.greenliberals.org.uk/ & http://www.northumbriaparty.com/) have joined them. And they're receiving requests from bloggers and journalists alike for news of the merges.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thebigqs123 (talk • contribs) 07:48, 2 May 2011 (UTC)  — Thebiggs123 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Sorry, but freedom of speech does not mean an entitlement to article about your group. Wikipedia is a privately-owned website that got where it was by summing up information about organisations, people or whatever that has been written in independent, reliable third-party sources - it's been that way throughout the ten years of Wikpedia's existence, and if you don't like that, you can use Facebook, MySpace, Blogspot, Wordpress or any other service that allows you to create articles about yourselves. Neither does the absence of a Wikipedia article prevent anyone entering "Democratic Reform Party" into Google and finding out the information that way. Since the only source of information is the party's own website and some mentions in self-published blogs, a Wikipedia article can do little but reprint this information, so it would be meaningless to consider Wikipedia an "impartial source". Interest from journalists is all very well, but at the very least you need some articles that journalists have actually written to have any claim to notability. And stop moaning about how you're supposed to get started - suffice to say UKIP and the Greens managed perfectly well without Wikipedia's help. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 08:51, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Well said Chris. If the success of a political party depends on it having a Wikipedia entry... Thebigqs123, I'm not in the habit of censoring articles about small political parties - I enjoy writing about them and have significantly expanded the entries of over 25 small UK parties. Fences  &amp;  Windows  01:01, 3 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete This is purely promotional material for a party that has not yet achieved any kind of notability. Google News Archive suggests that the Democratic Reform Party of Azerbaijan is better known that this one is. --MelanieN (talk) 00:18, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
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