Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of politicians who switched parties

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The result was redirect to Party switching. (non-admin closure) TheSpecialUser ^TSU 01:00, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of politicians who switched parties

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Where's the article?!

Is this supposed to be a list? Or a disambig? Doesn't appear to actually be either. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:41, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:27, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:27, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

~~Speedy delete~~ A quick look at the history shows that this article originally listed three politicians, all Americans, but the creator then decided to remove them since they could be listed at Party switching in the United States. Party switching already gives a global overview of the topic and nothing links here, so there's no need for this page. - Cal Engime (talk) 00:28, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
redirect to Party switching - "List of politicians who switched parties" seems like a potential search term. If/when more lists are created for more countries, the page could be home to a list of those lists, but it is not necessary at this time. -- The Red Pen of Doom 00:44, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Party switching. Trying to create one list for all party political systems for all times, which is what the article title purports to do, would be impracticable and I cannot imagine any value in such a list. Both Party switching in the United States and List of British politicians who have crossed the floor are quite large enough articles in themselves. --AJHingston (talk) 09:37, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Then why would we wish to have a redirect that implied we had such a title? Andy Dingley (talk) 11:19, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think that there is a case for a list of lists, but at the moment Party switching seems to serve for that. Not perfect, and if there is a better redirect I would be happy, but if somebody were looking they need pointing in the right direction. --AJHingston (talk) 11:33, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Party switching. The article was getting three to five hits a day prior to this discussion. - Cal Engime (talk) 23:15, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Everything on WPgets "three to five hits a day". That's just the web crawler background, not necessarily humans. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:32, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

keep IF it can be expanded globally and is not a "see also" page as it currently stands.Lihaas (talk) 07:24, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect - to party switching. Like what RedPenofDoom said, this could be a homepage in the future if pages of politicians switching parties in other countries were created, but since it doesn't really apply now, let's just redirect. Zappa O Mati 23:33, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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