Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of registered political parties in Spain (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Davewild 18:53, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

List of registered political parties in Spain
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Is a list of mostly non-notable data, provides little context or other usable information. Mbisanz (talk) 23:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, it does provide important information, which would be lost if deleted. Listing is not identical to the one of the ministry, it is a wikified list with english translations and wikilinks. Also, the time aspect of registrations is highly relevant, considering that these trends reflect various phases in Spain's transition to democracy. --Soman (talk) 00:36, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Since the page is very large, would you be opposed to splitting it into individual years or groups of years? One of my concerns is that with so many fields of data, users may have a hard time udnerstanding it all.  Mbisanz (talk) 00:49, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I do understand the problem of kilobytes. However, I would suggest having a look at User:Soman/temp, where all tables have been fused and sortable by date, name, province, etc.. --Soman (talk) 13:39, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I still have a problem listing all of these parties that ran in 1 election or maybe never ran. It just seems like WP:NOT and that this is a directory of ALL Spanish parties, not just the notable or active ones.  Sorting to me doesn't really improve it, since then it could not be split into decade specific periods.  That and I don't see how sorting by Party Name or City of Founding would result in that much more usability.  Mbisanz (talk) 22:13, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The Spanish party system is highly regional, thus province/city is a relevant factor. --Soman (talk) 20:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I think that splitting it into decades would be a good idea, and perhaps the tabular information needs to be revised. There's always room for improvement in displaying data.  It is important information showing the order in which parties were registered.  I'm not sure that the city AND the province have to be included (one would work as well as both), nor a translation of the party name.  Finally, the date can be shortened (all the parties in the 1980 table, for instance were registered on 1980-xx-xx).  That would free up space for other info.  Mandsford (talk) 02:29, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * keep and improve. On its face, this is useful and notable information, involving as it does the political parties of a country.  Hmains (talk) 04:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC).
 * Keep. Perhaps it could use some tidying in its current form, but why should Wikipedia be without a list of Spanish political parties? AfD isn't cleanup. Bryan Derksen (talk) 07:46, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, I don't see how this data fails WP:N. With all the redlinks and the extra info it meets WP:LIST criteria 1 and 3. Punkmorten (talk) 09:09, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia already has a separate article titled List of political parties in Spain which focuses on the parties that actually contest elections and are notable, as opposed to including any party which ever registered in the country. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 09:14, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep an informative and appropriate list. RMHED (talk) 19:58, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as per everyone but the nominator. Is it Snowing yet? Edward321 (talk) 15:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Metropolitan90, or Merge with List of political parties in Spain. It sometimes happens that two lists are created which essentially cover the same material. If people feel that the list under discussion has some features which could be incorporated into List of political parties in Spain, such as putting in the dates of registration, then I'm sure that could be done. Otherwise I see no value having a duplicate list, other than that this one contains more parties which fail WP:N - bear in mind from WP:Bio: "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability." and that a political party is not by default notable (see Church of the Militant Elvis Party. Red linking a political party doesn't say anything about its potential for a future article.  SilkTork  * SilkyTalk 14:44, 29 November 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.