Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States political party platforms


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The result was Transwikify to Wikisource. I will be moving these articles to User:Ariostos's userspace so they may move it as necessary. Nakon 04:35, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

List of United States political party platforms

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This article consists of the full text of various party platforms of political parties in the United States from the 19th and 20th centuries. However, WP:NOTREPOSITORY states that Wikipedia articles are not merely "collections of ... public domain or other source material such as ... original historical documents". Such content may be appropriate on Wikisource, but not on Wikipedia. See also the guideline Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources. These are indeed lengthy primary sources. I would not object to these platforms being transwikied to Wikisource, but it should be considered whether some of them may be subject to copyright and thus should not be placed on Wikisource. (I take no position on whether that should prevent the transwikiing of any of the platforms, but I just wanted to raise it as an issue.) However, I recommend that this article be deleted from Wikipedia. Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:17, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * It's been a bloody long time since I created that article and, since concentrating on collecting data for American Third Parties and their Electoral Performances, I've been distracted and finally entirely forgot about it. I have never been totally clear with Wikipedia's guidelines regarding what can be placed where so, if it would be better that this material be transferred to Wikisource, which I frankly have never heard of prior, then it should be done. The section was merely meant as a repository for Political Party Platforms after I was told to cut down their size on Presidential Election pages in favor of a summary, with the eventual option to link directly to the platform itself within the Wikipedia system. Predictably not all of the Parties had access to their platforms online, and a number of them required me to type them up directly from texts such as the Union Party, the Anti-Imperialist League, the People's Party, the Farmer-Labor Party, and so on. I would ultimately then recommend at the very least a move of those entries not accessible online to Wikisource, should the page(s) in question be deleted, if not all the entries. --Ariostos (talk) 02:07, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related page because it is also a repository of party platforms which are primary sources:

I haven't found any other American political parties which have separate lists of their political platforms on Wikipedia pages in this format; List of the political platforms of the Republican Party of the United States does not exist, for example. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:22, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:14, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:14, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Tanswikify both List of Political Party Platforms and List of Democratic Party Platforms to Wikisource as they are texts of primary documents. (I've always wanted to use that recommendation in a deletion debate!). Carrite (talk) 17:11, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 07:48, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Transwikify both, per Carrite. And put links in appropriate places so that readers know they exist. Currently they are both orphans. – Margin1522 (talk) 03:47, 15 February 2015 (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.