Talk:Rotpartiet

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I object to the {prod}, for a number of reasons. First of all I don't think there is any policy against articles on local political parties. (wikipedia is not paper) This is a registered political party that contested two elections. A foreign academic looking through Swedish election data would have difficulty in judging which party this is if the article is deleted.

Secondly, the case of Åtvidaberg is somewhat special in Swedish politics. It had a record number of local municipal parties, and Åtvidabergspartiet was one of the first succesful local parties (which later bloomed all over the country). --Soman 09:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

While there is no policy against such articles, I tried to judge it by comparing it to the notability guidelines we have, for things like WP:CORP, WP:CHURCH, and WP:ORG. None of these really directly applies, but for me, there is a common pattern which can be used to judge similar things like local political parties.

Having said that, your second argument to me is a lot stronger: if this is indeed a somehow special case, then it has probably gotten more attention (on a larger, perhaps nationwide scale) and that does warrant an article (not knowing the Swedish situation, I compared it to Belgium, where local parties in local elections often are successful and thus unremarkable: if this is (or was at the time) not the case in Sweden, then the situation is not comparable). I would like some WP:V sources for all this (just like I would like to have more of those for the articles I created as well ;-) ), but I have no problem keeping the article with your explanation. Fram 09:55, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I recon that the name of the party doesn't translate well into English. 'Rot' refers to grassroots, profiling itself against established political parties. --Soman 09:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not convinced that the name should be translated at all (as an article title, that is), and I wonder if it wouldn't be better if we kept the article at the Swedish name, avoiding all the problems inherent with translations. It's not like the party is known with an English name somehow :-). Just move the article to Rotpartiet, and add in the introduction that it means "root, roots, grassroots, ... party". See WP:English: "If there is no commonly used English name, use an accepted transliteration of the name in the original language".Fram 10:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)