Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Welfare Party Kerala


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The result was merge to Welfare Party of India. Consensus to merge (non-admin closure) Britishfinance (talk) 22:45, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Welfare Party Kerala

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Welfare Party Kerala is not a political party. The only non-notable chapter of the Welfare Party of India. Kutyava (talk) 14:49, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Kutyava (talk) 14:49, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 14:52, 29 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Smerge to Welfare Party of India, assuming that independent RS can be found to support that article (which might be the case based on an extremely cursory search), or else delete. My initial reaction was to advocate for retention here, because we have articles for the state affiliates of the US Republican and Democratic parties. However, that's not really analogous. List of political parties in India tells us that (as of 2017, apparently) there were "8 national parties, 52 state parties and 1785 unrecognised parties", of which the Welfare Party of India is one of the latter; its article is currently entirely sourced to the party's own self-published website. If there is coverage of some of these literal third-tier parties in reliable sources, there's no problem with having articles for them (clearly, we don't have an article for all 1785 of them!), but they need sourcing. And there's certainly no expectation that their subsidiary affiliates would warrant inclusion. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:54, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge as suggested. Bearian (talk) 15:10, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge Welfare Party Kerala is part of the Welfare Party of India, so it is best for it to form part of the main party's article. Lefcentreright  Talk  (plz ping) 18:42, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kerala-related deletion discussions.  PA TH   SL OP U  15:11, 4 November 2019 (UTC)


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