Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Development of political parties in the United States (2nd nomination)


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The result was Delete.  Citi Cat   ♫ 03:26, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Development of political parties in the United States

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Duplicate of part of Party system; in addition, the "some theorists" who have argued that 1994 was a new party system are a minority of the small number who speak of the Fifth Party System at all (a few dozen papers out of the thousands written on realigning elections on the United States). I would put in a redirect; but most people who want this title won't want to go there. This is distinct from the long essay which used to fill this space; but no service to the encyclopedia. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 16:46, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Seems to serve as a general page linking to the specific ones referred to (in that theoretical review) . possibly should be retitled accordingly. DGG (talk) 18:20, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note American political eras (transcluded below), which serves that purpose; but a rename to Party System (disambiguation), followed by deleting the redirect, might be worthwhile.Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:32, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Rename I agree that it should be renamed as a disambig page instead, I thought the template would be enough but I am not against the disam page (just rename it).--JForget 22:41, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete I think the template does the job Corpx 01:58, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Corpx. The Template:American political eras contains all the wisdom there is to be had in this area. The template appears at the bottom of Party system, an article which *does* explain the thinking of the authors who came up with the artificial-sounding division into different eras, while this article just states that the eras exist, as though they fell from the sky. 16:10, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Corpx. Kayaker 23:08, 1 August 2007 (UTC).


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