Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamworth Council election, 1998

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The result was keep. Owen× ☎ 13:22, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tamworth Council election, 1998

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Does not seem to be notable enough for elections. Article is year specific for a local election. Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:06, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Right now could be merged to (Tamworth_local_elections#Council_elections), but that would not require the merger of everything, just the outcomes. The rest could safely be deleted. Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:34, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
My below argument is a copy of the one I have put on the 2008 AFD. Davewild (talk) 11:05, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There have been a number of AFD's of local elections in the United Kingdom and none of them have resulted in deletion. Examples include Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kettering Council election, 2007, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birmingham Council election, 2008 and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stevenage Council election, 2003. We have always considered these elections as meeting the notability guidelines with sufficient coverage to write articles on them. Indeed I can point to articles such as Lichfield Council election, 1999, Redditch Council election, 2002 and Wyre Forest Council election, 2004 which have been on the front page. Consisentency requires we keep these or delete them all, otherwise we have a situation where one council is deleted and another similar one is kept. Multiple articles have been created on the most recent 2011 elections - see United Kingdom local elections, 2011 showing many editors agree we should have these articles. Davewild (talk) 11:05, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural Keep Category:English local elections by year has 56 subcategories, all full of pages akin to this - local elections by year in varia boroughs, counties and councils. They survive notable and WP:ONEVENT because they are lists. The list of common outcomes for Politicians mentions campaign candidates and hopefuls who fail, and directs that if they are not notable for an article by themselves, then they go into a list of candidates for that election. --Whiteguru (talk) 11:09, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. If they are inherently notable, perhaps this could be listed at WP:EVENT or a similar notability guideline. I looked at WP:EVENT and WP:AFDP but did not see anything specifically about elections, just candidates. Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:22, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note I have expanded the Tamworth Council election, 2008 article showing how these election articles can meet the notability guideline through significant coverage in reliable sources. Davewild (talk) 13:00, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The article has now been expanded from where it was when it was nominated - see this dif, adding coverage in reliable sources to establish notability. Davewild (talk) 14:54, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Nicely done political science about a local election. The election itself is clearly the subject of independent coverage. The compilation of election data is not regarded as the bad sort of "Original Research" banned by WP policy, nor should it be. The election may be limited in scope, but Wikipedia is not paper, after all, and there's no rational reason to limit the encyclopedia's scope by failing to use such admittedly esoteric historical work such as this. The page is a credit to Wikipedia, worthy of emulation. Carrite (talk) 15:19, 8 May 2011 (UTC) Since this is one of a series of like challenges, this will be copied-and-pasted where applicable.[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:58, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:58, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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