Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of political parties in the Donetsk People's Republic


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The result was   delete. Stifle (talk) 10:47, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

List of political parties in the Donetsk People&

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Fails basic wikipedia policies WP:N, WP:V, WP:NOTNEWS, and others. List consists of some insignificant organizations and are not registered as parties. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 22:14, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Question: the article on Donetsk Republic claims it won 68 seats in the Donbass general elections, 2014, and that 	Aleksandr Zakharchenko its candidate for President, was elected. Both facts have a citation Wouldn't that make it a genuine political party? The article about Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic  and New Russia Party have references calling them parties. If news sources call something a party, that's justification for an article, and for calling them a party.   I agree the refs should be included here.     If the news sources are ambiguous, the  title can be changed to "List of political organizations ..." which  might be a way to deal with it.     DGG ( talk ) 22:33, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * True, there were news in that regard. Could those news be qualified as reliable? Do we want Wikipedia to end up in a middle of political smear campaign? Some of those "parties" as it states in their articles about them were merged and existed for only couple of days, others do are not even registered as political parties and their credibility in question. If Donetsk Republic has a history of existence in Ukraine, other organizations were created during a conflict and their creation could be considered as part of information propaganda as hoax. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 23:11, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I think your best  step would probably be to first challenge the individual articles on the parties.  DGG ( talk ) 04:02, 20 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep. I find this nomination bizarre as the articles linked to in the list are well sourced.  The groups clearly exist and are covered by reliable sources.  Is the nominator's real objection perhaps that he considers the organizations to be illegitimate?  If so, that's not a valid rationale for deleting them or this list of them.  Is registration really required for political parties in the DPR?  If so, the solution is not to delete the article but rather to add all registered parties to the list.  We'd end up with a wonderfully complete list, and any parties which are notable but unregistered could be specially marked.  —Psychonaut (talk) 10:13, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. It really does not make any sense to create plain list of four parties, only two of which deserve very brief wikipedia pages. My very best wishes (talk) 05:06, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Weak delete because I'm not sure this requires a whole list for only two parties or three articles, and there really isn't any other content, here. Template:Political parties in Donetsk People's Republic and Category:Political parties in Donetsk People's Republic are probably enough. I don't know of any other parties in this group, though I assume Ukrainian parties still exist in the area. The links to terrorism and other controversy (such as being uregistered/banned in Ukraine) may actually add to notability, though these political divisions are unrecognized internationally. —PC-XT+ 03:47, 25 January 2015 (UTC) —PC-XT+ 03:50, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - This would be best handled through inclusion of "Parties" and links to the various parties in a footer. I agree that a list of four parties with no significant historical parties missed, would seem to be insufficient to sustain a freestanding page. Carrite (talk) 15:20, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete – No indication of significance, or indication of their actual existence. RGloucester  — ☎ 02:32, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep Apparently the individual parties do exist, aso a list is justified.  DGG ( talk ) 03:12, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, - The Herald (here I am) 13:10, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete We do not need list articles that only contain only four things. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 06:05, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
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