Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Marrickville greens

Hi Graeme,

I think the Marrickville Greens should remain an entry on Wikipedia for the following reasons.

The Greens are a decentralised party. Each local group tends to be run campaigns (including non-electoral campaigns) as a separate entity with a lot more autonomy than the Labor and Liberal parties. I don't see why Wikipedia should be limited to entries on state and national parties. People may well be interested in local branches. I've seen whole books related to the Glebe Branch of the ALP for example. I've also seen far more esoteric subjects on Wikipedia. I thought Wikipedia is a live process with room to expand where the community wants to take it. The No Aircraft Noise Party has its own page - one can argue that they are far smaller and less consequential than the Marrickville Greens. The Marrickville by-election has its own wikipedia page - surely one of the main protagonists should have a page. The page provides useful information, backed with references, for the 80,000 people who live in Marrickville are and might want information on, and a history of the local Greens Party, as well as that info for people outside the area. It would seem I could have an entry on myself as a Greens Councillor on Marrickville Council, but the group itself doesn't warrant an entry? That seems arbitrary and if anything the reverse should be the case. I don't think I warrant a page on Wikipedia, but I think the local group does. If someone is reading about Marrickville Council on Wikipedia and it mentions The Greens, don't you think it is more appropriate to be able to link to the local group directly, rather than having a link the The Greens NSW or Australian Greens, which may not provide as useful information.

For all those reasons I do not think it should be deleted. Indeed I think interesting local groups/branches, should be encouraged to put information up. I'd certainly be interested to read it.

Thanks,

Max Phillips