Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of the Green Party of Canada

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 in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:27, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History of the Green Party of Canada

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Redirect to Green Party of Canada#History similar to the History of the Conservative Party of Canada redirect. Most of this article’s information is the same as the Green Party of Canada article. Aaaccc (talk), 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Redirect - Seems pretty obvious. --NINTENDUDE⁶⁴ 02:41, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, and trim Green Party of Canada#History. Major federal parties can have sub-articles to prevent their main article from becoming too long. The Conservative Party of Canada only has 8 years of history, where the Green Party has 28. In fact the Conservatives ~~and NDP~~ should have their histories split off before they become too long. 117Avenue (talk) 03:32, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Enough data here to warrant a standalone article, then improve the article with additional reliable sources. I'm adding a rescue tag to the article, as I feel that the topic is notable and worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia. Northamerica1000 (talk) 05:25, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – The merging of this data to Green Party of Canada#History would make the Green Party of Canada article excessively long. Northamerica1000 (talk) 05:28, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I added another reliable source to this article: "The Green Party sprouts." from CBC News. Northamerica1000 (talk) 21:37, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. — frankie (talk) 20:10, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. — frankie (talk) 20:10, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Although I earlier supported a similar redirect proposal for the History of the Green Party of Ontario, the national party is a different case IMO. A separate article about the history of a major national party seems appropriate. Nominator correctly points out that a lot of this information is duplicated at Green Party of Canada; that history section should be trimmed to a summary, leaving the detailed history for this separate article. Full disclosure: I was invited to this discussion by User:Aaaccc. --MelanieN (talk) 20:28, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete What appear to be the two main sources for this lengthy article are both link dead. The obvious merge candidate is already a very long page. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:01, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Poorly written (particularly the lead), poorly sourced, but obviously rescuable. Sadly much of the work to improve articles only begins with a deadline, but that's human nature for you.--~T P W 15:52, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Alpha Quadrant ^talk 20:51, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Poorly written, but that is not a reason for deletion. Satisfies wp:notability, and a good topic choice for a sub article, and there is a plenty of enclyclopedic material for such an article. North8000 (talk) 00:14, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and trim Green Party of Canada#History per suggestion by 117Avenue - the subject meets WP:GNG and would be too long a section in the main party article. Hence it's suitable for its own article. ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹^Speak 13:13, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Enough valid information to fill its own article, no need supersizing the other one, nor eliminating valid encyclopedic information for size concerns. Basic information can be there, with the more detailed information here. Does anyone sincerely doubt this is a notable topic? Dream Focus 17:41, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This is a sub-page of Green Party of Canada, established so that main article does not become unwieldy. Expanded material here emphasizes that this is not a content fork. Carrite (talk) 16:02, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.