Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 Libertas European Parliament recognition application

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 delete. There's been enough time for smerging now. Sandstein 07:02, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2009 Libertas European Parliament recognition application[edit]

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Notability? The "Libertas-cyclopedia" this author posted to Wikipedia has some 20 articles plus 10 categories plus a huge navbar, as if we were talking about an important party with a long history. In fact the party has little to no influence, few members and exactly one mandate in the European Parliament. Neither this nor the short history nor the few substantial information there is about this party grants a separate article for these sub-topics.
I propose to merge some few facts from these articles into the main article and then delete these two.
PanchoS (talk) 01:28, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete just some facts to merge to main article QEDquid (talk) 09:45, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Smerge. Selective merge both of them into Libertas.eu. There's some useful info here for the main article, but standalone articles aren't warranted, they are political geekery and trivia of the highest order, and the use of sources needs checking (e.g. inaccessible photos on Flickr). Fences&Windows 01:12, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 07:41, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete both - a single author is spamming Wikipedia with innumerable articles about a subject that deserves no more than one. This is a transparent attempt to use Wikipedia to exaggerate its importance, contrary to WP:SOAP and WP:WEIGHT. Any useful information can be merged to the main article; as all are by the same author the usual argument against delete-and-merge, that contribution history is lost, does not apply. JohnCD (talk) 11:11, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note by the nominator: As the second 8-day-term reaches its end, I try to merge the more important information to the main article by today, so these two articles can be deleted without losing substantial information. I agree with JohnCD's argument that delete-and-merge works here, additionally I see no alternative to delete-and-merge and within 14 days nobody showed me an alternative to what can be done to these articles. PanchoS (talk) 11:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I won't get it done today, as I'm going to be offline. Maybe someone else could step in selectively merging the two articles to the main article? Otherwise do whatever you think is right. PanchoS (talk) 06:05, 25 February 2010 (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.