Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unaffiliated (New Jersey)


 * 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 merge to Elections in New Jersey. (non-admin closure) Winged Blades Godric  13:53, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Unaffiliated (New Jersey)

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Delete as a topic not notable enough for a standalone article. Independent voters in New Jersey, regardless of the name, do not significantly differ from independents in any other U.S. state and no claim of that has been made in the article. The definition of an independent voter is already appropriately covered in the Independent voter and Unenrolled voter articles, and I don't see any useful content that could justify a merge. Slon02 (talk) 14:34, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   21:08, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.   CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   21:08, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   21:30, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   &#9742;   &#9998;  00:47, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * Redirect & merge to Politics of New Jersey.--TM 01:08, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep The particular ways in which independent voters may vote and participate in primary elections are unique to New Jersey and appropriately covered in a standalone article that is backed by appropriate reliable and verifiable sourcing. Alansohn (talk) 02:50, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Could Alansohn or any other Jerseyan elaborate briefly on how independent voters' effect on primary elections in New Jersey is different from the 11 other closed-primary states listed at Primary elections in the United States? Not knowing how elections are run there, I am genuinely curious if there is a major difference. If there isn't, I would think this information, including any minor quirks related to New Jersey (terminology, timelines) could be covered adequately in the primary elections article, and/or Politics of New Jersey and/or Independent voter as suggested above. ``` t b w i l l i e ` $1.25 ` 03:35, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not a Jerseyan (across the river), but NJ has a semi-open primary system: only party members can vote, but unaffiliateds can sign up to join that party at the polls. This is not a unique system in the United States, where there are only 9 states with fully closed primaries, 19 states don't have party options on voter registration forms, and a plurality of states have ranging degrees of semi-open/semi-closed primary systems. I think our existing articles on US party registration and primary elections could do with some expansion, but I'm not seeing very much evidence of NJ being a particularly unique case - somewhat interesting, yes, but not unique.--Slon02 (talk) 15:54, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 01:26, 5 June 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  So Why  06:50, 13 June 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: I'm usually wary to relist a fourth time but since consensus seems to be in favor of merging and redirecting, the question of the target has to be answered. Namiba suggested Politics of New Jersey while Philosopher suggested Elections in New Jersey and Ad Orientem arguing for "per above" without clarifying which "above" they mean.
 * Merge to Elections in New Jersey. This is valuable information, but not well enough developed to be split off from is parent article or, in this case, it's grandparent article, since neither Primaries in New Jersey nor Party affiliation in New Jersey exist. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 15:29, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge & Redirect as per above. There is just not enough here for a stand alone article and this is likely to end up as a perma-stub. If at some point that changes we can always recreate the article and expand it. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:10, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  So Why  06:51, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Based on the apparent consensus in this discussion, and after looking over the contents of the two proposed merge destinations, I think that Elections in New Jersey would be the appropriate merge destination. That article better describes the political landscape of the state - and thus would be more ideal for a mention of the state's peculiar voter registration laws - than the politics article, which largely discusses the state's history as well as political issues.--Slon02 (talk) 20:42, 21 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment Based on the page contents, I recommend Elections in New Jersey as a merge/redirect target. There's a case that Elections in New Jersey could be merged to Politics of New Jersey later, but that would need to be discussed on the talk pages first. Power~enwiki (talk) 23:09, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge and redirect. No case for deletion.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:45, 27 June 2017 (UTC)


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