Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Party of Australia leadership election, 2016

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 redirect to National Party of Australia leadership elections. Content has been merged. czar 00:46, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

National Party of Australia leadership election, 2016[edit]

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Fails WP:EVENT. Not all leadership elections are notable, and this was a total non-event; not really an election at all. St Anselm (talk) 08:56, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Article could certainly use expansion to reflect the notability of the election. Upon looking at WP:EVENT criteria I'm not sure it does fail and think that nominating to delete this seems too hasty. Kiwichris (talk) 09:11, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 10:43, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 10:43, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 10:43, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. -The Gnome (talk) 16:29, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to a new article about National Party leadership elections in general. It's not an inherently invalid topic — people are interested in the leadership histories of political parties, and they do get media coverage — but it's not necessarily the case that every leadership election always needs its own standalone article even if there's very little that can actually be said about it because it was a one-candidate race that ended in an acclamation. A better approach is what we do with New Democratic Party leadership elections in Canada: we start with an overview article about the overall phenomenon of the party's leadership elections in general. It directly contains all of the content about the races where we can't really write or source anything significant, because they were one-candidate or "incumbent leader challenged only by a minor fringe candidate who had no chance of actually winning" formalities, and then the races about which we can write and source more content have their own separate articles which are briefly summarized under a "main article" link to the standalone subpage. This isn't an inherently invalid topic, but it doesn't really need its own standalone article — including a brief summary of it in an overview article is a better approach in this case. Bearcat (talk) 18:49, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Bearcat. Some of these elections, where they are contested, might be interesting enough to justify standalone articles, but for pro-forma processes like this where there is only one candidate, dressing them up as an "election" is borderline misleading for our readers. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 09:38, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Bearcat. We have far too many of these leadership election articles (the sheer number at Category:Leadership elections in the Czech Republic is painful to see) and I agree that merging them into a single article on leadership elections within the party would be a good solution to having numerous articles that are never going to progress beyond a stub. Number 5 7 22:00, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: @Bearcat, Lankiveil, and Number 57: The proposed merge target does not yet exist. Please create it or suggest practicable outcomes instead.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 17:28, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Response to relist comment I stand by my suggestion. Obviously I am not going to create a new article with content that duplicates that here, unless it is clear that consensus as expressed by these discussions is that it is a good idea to do so. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 00:15, 29 March 2018 (UTC).[reply]
Comment: This discussion (with the merge proposals) should be read in conjunction with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Party of Australia leadership election, 2007. In hindsight, I should have nominated the two articles together. St Anselm (talk) 01:18, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: The content has now been merged into National Party of Australia leadership elections. St Anselm (talk) 20:02, 29 March 2018 (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.