Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish Jacobite Party (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. Merging may be appropriate, but that's an editorial decision beyond the scope of this AfD Fritzpoll (talk) 07:42, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Scottish Jacobite Party
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I'm proposed this article (and several others) for either deletion or for merger into a list of small British third parties. My reasoning is that there are a decent number of minor parties which while not notable enough to merit their own page (for having contested very few elections and/or effectively having acted as the electoral vehicle for one or a few candidates) may be notable enough to mention on here. This is in part a result of there being a 'grey' area between clearly non-notable parties (those that never ran for any office) and notable ones (Labour and the Tories come to mind), and there being no clear guidelines; it partly results from the ease of party registration in the UK (and a few other Commonwealth countries).Tyrenon (talk) 06:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - frivolous party which has succeeded only in getting a very small amount of press attention. A Google News search turns up five or six articles with some information about the party (basically noting some policies), but given that the party doesn't really aim for any real world achievements, I don't think that's enough. Warofdreams talk 09:34, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  —Artw (talk) 21:21, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
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 * Keep Evidently notable as demonstrated by the search above. Colonel Warden (talk) 08:05, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Merge into a minor party article. Few people will find this article under this name, and in a group, some might even read about it. There are dozens of such parties which have existed, to be sure. Collect (talk) 13:40, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per Collect, I accept that there will be dozens of such parties, and I do not see why that make them the less notable. This is a comprehensive encyclopedia, and just the place for this. War of Dreams comments that the article should be deleted because he does not think the party will become a major factor in the world, but wedon;t go by the plausibility of the politics. NOT PAPER. DGG (talk) 02:16, 6 June 2009 (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.