Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Namibia African People's Democratic Organisation


 * 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   no consensus to delete, default to keep.  Sandstein  17:42, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Namibia African People&

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Non-notable Namibian political party with a relatively brief and (it appears) undistinguished history. Unless people believe it should be merged into the SWAPO article, I would argue it can be removed. Ecoleetage (talk) 01:20, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:N and WP:V. How/why is this organization notable? No reliable sources to verify the information either. Happyme22 (talk) 03:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions.   -- Xymmax  So let it be written   So let it be done  09:59, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete It seems like a usless stub with no sources, I'd prod. TheDJAtClubRock :-) (T/C) 19:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep a political party for an entire race of people in an African nation is totally notable, if its true that is, sources are needed but i'm sure they will be found soon enough, its hard to find them for obscure lands in poor places that are digitally divided however =(.Myheartinchile (talk) 21:24, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep or merge to South West Africa People's Organization. I have put in a reliable source. Internet sources for early African political parties are hard to come by so we need to exercise greater caution when dealing with such topics - and we are talking about a significant aspect of African history - the 20th century fight for independence from Western control. I would suggest a speedy close or the nominator withdraw this one.  SilkTork  *YES! 14:27, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, almost a case study of what systemic bias means: the party is considered utterly unsignificant because it's not on the web, forgetting that it suffers 1) from being an African party of a little known nation 2) from being no more active. But not only the web: just from a look at google books it's name compares with some info in several books: Independent Namibia: Problems and Prospects, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Southern Africa, the already mentioned A History of Resistance in Namibia, where it surfaces at pages 93, 95, 100, Escape from Violence, Political Dissent, To be Born a Nation, Namibia: The Violent Heritage, Namibia, Challenge to the United Nations, and some others. Also, please keep in mind that the name has some variants: it's also called "Namib African People's Organization", "National African People's Democratic Organisation", "Namibian African People's Democratic Organization".--Aldux (talk) 20:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


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