Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Political Parties Throughout History


 * 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   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:35, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Political Parties Throughout History

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This article has several issues, including
 * 1) By title, it should address worldwide political parties but actually only discusses the United States.
 * 2) Its content duplicate other articles such as List of political parties in the United States and History of the United States.

This article was changed to a redirect on December 11, and then submitted to RfD by another editor on December 15. To avoid any appearance of a backdoor deletion, the RfD has been closed, the article restored, and this AfD discussion opened. I personally favor deletion of the article for the reasons stated above. –Grondemar 17:21, 20 December 2010 (UTC) –Grondemar 17:21, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm the one who originally turned it into a redirect. I understand the rationale for taking it to AFD. It's an essay, the term isn't common enough to worry about leaving a redirect behind. tedder (talk) 17:23, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete (I opened the RfD) an essay duplicating the list linked above. If it is thought that a history of worldwide political parties should be created, it should be at History of political parties, though I don't know if this even should be moved there if such an article is deemed suitable. &mdash;innotata 17:25, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is an essay, not an encyclopedia article. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:10, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:45, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - even if it didn't look like someone's elementary school project, it both duplicates information elsewhere and is not actually a history of political parties (either in the USA or elsewhere!). Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 01:34, 27 December 2010 (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.