Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Republican Party of India (Tamil Nadu)

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:48, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Republican Party of India (Tamil Nadu)

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Completely unsourced article about a fringe political party which has never won a seat in any legislature, has no genuinely verifiable indication of actually having more than three or four members total, has a decidedly advertorial skew to the writing tone ("After his Inauguration the peoples are re-joined to RPI because of his leadership and honesty."), and was created by an editor with a likely WP:COI with regard to both the party and its claimed leader. Fringe political parties are certainly eligible for Wikipedia articles if they can be sourced properly -- but since it's possible for any random person in the world to simply declare themselves a political party of one, an article cannot be kept just because the topic is claimed as a political party, if it isn't reliably sourced as a real political party. Accordingly, per WP:INDAFD I'd be happy to withdraw this if somebody with Tamil language skills can salvage it with a few actual sources to get it over WP:ORG, but it does not get an automatic "just because it exists" inclusion freebie or an exemption from having to be properly sourced. Delete, unless it can be fixed. Bearcat (talk) 22:42, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 00:01, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 00:01, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Fails WP:ORG. No coverage found -- let alone significant coverage by independent reliable sources. The most significant person in the party (according to this article) is only mentioned in losing bids as being an "independent" rather than in a significant named party. SPA creator's other article was addressed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M.G.Nagamani. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 15:58, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:11, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, joe decker ^talk 04:43, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, this article isn't about a political party as such, but of the TN state branch of the national party. And there is no referenced material to be merged into the parent article. --Soman (talk) 10:12, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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