Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish Jacobite Party

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash^talk 23:22, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish Jacobite Party

Scottish Jacobite Party is a hoax started by one of the regular commenters at Politicalbetting.com blog. The commenter in question is the in-house "joker" of the community. No such party has been registered with the Electoral Commission, and at the website (which is used as his link by the commenter at Politicalbetting.com) the "people" page is blank, and the registration with the Electoral Commission is "pending".--Mais oui! 23:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC),Keep Thanks to Big Jim for finding that registration: I had searched, and have re-searched the EC website, and I STILL cannot find that Registration page with any combination of search terms. I still think that more should be added to the article about the comedic nature of the party, lest the gullible be deceived. Bloomin expensive joke though, but then so was the Monster Raving Looney Party.--Mais oui! 17:53, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

• Yes, for some reason the search function doesn't seem to scan the registers, but you can find it through [1] > Regulatory Issues > Registers > Register of political parties, then pick it from the list, then press search. Very odd. Anyway, it's definitely there. sjorford #£@%&$?! 19:33, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. Delete; even though the lead claims that the article is about the hoax, the rest of the article describes it as if it were real. —Cryptic (talk) 07:48, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Seems to be a work of political dada. linas 23:21, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete --Rogerd 03:28, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep According to this website 1 they are in fact a registered party with the Electoral Commission. Can you state for certain that they aren't when this would evidence that they are. If it is the case that they are in fact registered (as it would appear they are) there is nothing in the article text that is inaccurate thus no justification for deleting the article! Whether they are a serious party or not is indeed up for question, but if we include the Official Monster Raving Loony Party then why not this mob? Big Jim Fae Scotland 12:42, 10 October 2005

• Keep - it looks as if they are indeed registered with the Electoral Commission, which is a big effort to make for a pure hoax. sjorford #£@%&$?! 12:47, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - as per Big Jim Fae Scotland Keresaspa 13:52, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - have heard of them vaguely but didn't know they were a hoax.

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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.