Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of registered political parties in Spain


 * 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 keep, no consensus to redirect. Sjakkalle's argument to keep wasn't adequately answered by the redirecters; even so, if anyone wants to pursue a redirect further, it doesn't need AfD (see WP:MERGE). However, there is no consensus to redirect as a result of this discussion.  Daniel Bryant  04:25, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

List of registered political parties in Spain

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Physchim62 (talk) 04:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) at 242k, this page is practically unusable;
 * 2) it is incomplete, ending with parties registered in 2001, and maintenance would only aggravate the length problem;
 * 3) most entries are non-notable, eg local groupings established for a single, unsuccessful municipal election;
 * 4) there is little additional information apart from the red wikilink;
 * 5) the information is available in a complete and up-to-date form from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior;
 * 6) there is a maintained list of notable Spanish political parties at List of political parties in Spain.
 * Keep. Regarding some of the points given to delete. I do not agree that a long article is useless, length could incidentally be solved by splitting it (though I'm not sure that I would support that idea). Even though the article is long, the chronological ordering makes the list navigable. I see that most entries are not notable and are redlinks, and I think that most of them, being little more than a one-shot gathering of people, should be unlinked. There is in all likelihood very little to write about them. Even so, the fact that the Spanish government keeps registries over this and puts it online would indicate that at least a mention on Wikipedia can be warranted. Regarding the final point, presence of one article does not mean that another one cannot exist unless we are dealing with content forks (which this is not, the two lists serve different purposes). In the interests of complete coverage of the Spanish political system, I think this list is OK. It tells something about the Spanish political system, about how party registration works and has worked historically. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:33, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of political parties in Spain; I can't think of a purer content fork than this. -  irides centi   (talk to me!)  15:29, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect as mentioned above. No reason for this fork.  A r k y a n  &#149; (talk) 15:35, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep, because Spain is a historically important country and political parties are also significant and noteworthy. --Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? 16:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * just opined "strong keep" in 27 AFD discussions over a period of 35 minutes, several times with clearly disruptive rationales. Uncle G 16:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect per above. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:40, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect, per Diavian. Cremepuff222 (talk, review me!) 18:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of political parties in Spain; A brief mention of the register of political parties and an external link on the main article to the reigster would be sufficient. Davewild 20:04, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep This is an extensive list, and that is why lengthy! Simple redirecting it to List of political parties in Spain would result in loss of information. In fact, this list may be considered as a daughter list of "Registered parties" subsection of List of political parties in Spain, and the daughter has outgrown the mother (in terms of size)! As User:Sjakkalle has mentioned above, the fact that the Spanish government keeps registries over this and puts it online would indicate that at least a mention on Wikipedia can be warranted. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 07:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. No information would be "lost" as the up-to-date list is available from the Spanish government (this fact should be mentioned in List of political parties in Spain, along with a description of the registration system). There is no "added value" in the list as it stands, and little prospect of any improvement given the non-notability of the vast majority of the entries. Physchim62 (talk) 10:09, 12 April 2007 (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.