Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Swiss constituency


 * 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 and redirect‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ to International Monetary Fund. Spartaz Humbug! 20:34, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

The Swiss constituency

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Not notable.

No plausible redirect target. Un assiolo (talk) 18:56, 12 June 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:27, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Finance, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Poland, Serbia,  and Switzerland.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:05, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Relisting comment: Discussion page was never added to the 19 June log page upon the last relist. Relisting now and manually adding to the current day's log Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, --Finngall talk 23:06, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: unless they have real tangible impact that is covered by high quality independent RS, this isn't a notable subject. - Kevo3 2 7 (talk) 14:31, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment This article may be removed due to poor formatting.-- ETIBAR MEMMEDOV  TT me 22:48, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - from a quick search it appears that this is a platform for international cooperation that goes beyond just voting in IMF/WB. See for example mentions like "The main em- phasis was on providing support to the central banks of the Swiss constituency in the IMF ...", "...carried out in the framework of a joint IMF- Swiss regional project for countries in the Swiss constituency" , "During the meeting of the Swiss Constituency the most important elements of policy of the World Bank and the IMF were presented , i.a. with respect to the prevention of financial crises . " , "Meeting of World Bank / IMF Constituency September 2000 saw the annual meeting of the World Bank / IMF Constituency which includes Poland ( the " Swiss Constituency " ) , organised by the NBP and the Ministry of Finance in Cracow". None of these are particularly good as article references, but the wordings shared here point to that the constituency plays some role in cooperation between states. --Soman (talk) 22:13, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep Per above notes. The constituency is a political tool, and the concept is definitely non-trivial. Superboilles (talk) 20:13, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Relisting comment: Can we please have some gng passing sources. The keep votes seem to be arguing based on assumptions not policy. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz Humbug! 07:13, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep but I would definitely expand this if possible with more information because article is very little but this is definitely a valuable institution. Боки   ✉  20:49, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete. Non-notable subject under Wikipedia notability guidelines. Does not pass WP:GNG due to a lack of in-depth coverage. There is not enough information about this topic to expand it from a stub. The constituency is already mentioned in International Monetary Fund, where its mentioned that Switzerland, Poland and seven "near eastern" countries form a constituency. This can be expanded there via note, by listing the other countries. The percentage of voting rights is subject to periodic change, and is therefore not a useful piece of information. If we decide to keep this, we could then create articles for the remaining likewise non-notable 24 (the IMF has 24 and the World bank has 25 total) constituencies. In that case, these articles should be merged into a List of constituencies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, or similar, but the resulting page would also be relatively short, and considering WP:PAGEDECIDE and WP:MERGE (context) could simply be merged into the IMF parent article (49kb of readable prose). As these constituencies seem to be more or less the same for the IMF and the World Bank (where this constituency is called EDS24), the same information could be added to the World Bank article. To conclude, information about the constituencies should be added directly to the IMF and World Bank articles.—Alalch E. 10:44, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Please see this link to understand that there are 24 directors of the IMF and they all represent a constituency, which may be one or more countries. All countries that are IMF (and World Bank) members are therefore either a constituency or form a constituency, and there is nothing special or distinguishing about "the Swiss constituency". —Alalch E. 10:57, 25 July 2023 (UTC)


 * From the above table you can see how many of these constituencies there are, and how they are nothing special. You can find the same amount of trivial or primary coverage on practically any of those, for example "The Spanish constituency".—Alalch E. 11:48, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The topic of representation of countries through the constituencies is an interesting one, but it needs to be treated as a whole, on a broader scale. And this is how it is treated in the sources. For example: Uneven Patterns of Governance: How Developing Countries Are Represented in the IMF. Here's another example, contemplating an "EU quota", through an EU constituency; it mentions "Australian, Belgian, Canadian, English-speaking African, Indonesian, Italian and Nordic constituencies". Additional example: The Internationalization of Postsocialist Economies (Grzegorz W. Kolodko) ("Indeed, why not compose a new IMF and World Bank constituency from Latin American, Eastern European, and CIS nations").And consistent with this, the only secondary source in the article, the swissinfo.ch article, precisely deals with the broader politics of representation, and is not about the Swiss constituency as a constituency, but about how "Emerging countries and the United States want a wider distribution of seats", and Switzerland's (as a country) response to that. It does not contain WP:SIGCOV of the Swiss constituency.—Alalch E. 12:04, 25 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete. I searched and found it mentioned a lot in books, but always passing mentions and not significant coverage. Fails WP:GNG due to lack of significant coverage. <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;background-image:linear-gradient(45deg,Red,Orange,Yellow,Green,Blue,Purple);color:transparent;background-clip:text;-webkit-background-clip:text">CT55555 (talk) 02:31, 26 July 2023 (UTC)


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