Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aruban Democratic Alliance

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The result was Redirected to List of political parties in Aruba. Merge already completed by Black Falcon. Non-admin closure. Serpent's Choice 07:00, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aruban Democratic Alliance

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It's hard to argue for the deletion of any political party, but the Aruban Democratic Alliance (ALIANSA) really is not notable. The article itself says they won nothing in the election five years ago. An internet search turns up about 100 nonwiki ghits, which is too low even for a country where English is not the primary language. Maybe someone can check if there are notability criteria for political parties. YechielMan 05:06, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I agree with the nom: 3.5% of the vote in one election five years ago does not pass the threshhold of notability. Also, verifiability is a problem. Semperf 06:03, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment - the information contained is verifiable (see [1] and [2]). The problem is that there is apparently no readily-available online source that treats the party in a non-trivial manner. Perhaps there is some information available in Aruban newspaper print sources (I will post a message requesting sourced information to the Carribean WikiProject). I really don't want political party articles to be deleted, but I agree with the nom that, as it stands, the article fails WP:Notability. Black Falcon 06:23, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I have no moral problem with deleting the articles of non-notable political parties. The line has to be drawn somewhere; this party is worth at best a parenthetical mention in the page describing the election it lost. Flakeloaf 06:25, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
• Merge, redirect to List of political parties in Aruba. The merge will require nothing more than typing the name of the party and maybe a sentence about its one-time participation in the 2001 elections. I can do this in 2 minutes if the idea is supported. Even if a merge is not supported, the article should be redirected rather than deleted. Black Falcon 06:28, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

• In fact, it's done -- all that's left is to turn this page (the article, not this AfD) into a redirect. Feel free to revert my edit on List of political parties in Aruba if you think it's inappropriate. Black Falcon 06:49, 4 February 2007 (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.