Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Libertarian Party of Puerto Rico


 * 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 Libertarian Party (United States). Note: There is precedent for delete and redirect as an outcome in some situations, but its use is limited by precedent to deeply problematic content (copyvio, BLP), and no argument is made that the content is so problematic that it can't stay in the history. --j⚛e deckertalk 04:25, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Libertarian Party of Puerto Rico

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No references since creation in October 2012 & no indication of notability. – S. Rich (talk) 03:07, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Puerto Rico-related deletion discussions  Occult Zone  ( Talk ) 06:09, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:14, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete and redirect to Libertarian Party (United States). Community consensus has held that state branches of political parties do not inherit the notability of the national party, where the bar for inclusion is generally pretty low, and these sorts of articles are very often deleted when they land in AfD. Which is to say that the state branches need to establish some notability of their own. In many cases small third parties don't even have ballot access. One key sign of notability is whether or not the state party has managed to actually get anyone elected to a state level office. The Libertarian Party is the largest of the third parties in the United States and they actually have won some local and state offices. But I am unable to find any claim of that in Puerto Rico. Nor does the dearth of reliable source coverage help the case for this article. I am willing to reconsider my !vote if any evidence of independent notability for this state/territorial branch can be found. -Ad Orientem (talk) 23:26, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment by OP – I have included their website on the page infobox, but agree with Ad Orientem that a redirect is the best way to go. With this in mind, I'll wait a few days to see what other views there are. Depending on what we get, I may withdraw this as a speedy close. At which point I'll do a WP:BLAR on the article. – S. Rich (talk) 16:55, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. No such thing as delete and redirect, it is one or the other. Do not redirect this; there is quite rightly nothing about this one-person party in the target article, even though there is coverage of its one potentially popular but irrevocably doomed agenda: independence for Puerto Rico. LPPR only uses independence as a chance to Obama-bash in any case. There is no indepth coverage for the party itself. None. Slam. Dunk. I ask that someone please keep an eye on the Frank Worley title to make sure that no one makes an article of that. This sole spokesman for the party has gotten some coverage, but in only nineteen Google hits. No reliable sources out of any of them. Not much independence from the subject, either. Anarchangel (talk) 01:49, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
 * It is customary when deleting local and state branches of political parties to redirect them to the national party's article provided there is one. Also, and I don't want to sound snippy here, but AfD discussions are not an appropriate forum for political editorializing. Thanks. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:56, 2 June 2014 (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.