Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Committee room

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The result was no consensus. No additional discussion after final relisting. -- RoySmith (talk) 04:03, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Committee room[edit]

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UK political terminology, supposedly. Fails WP:DICDEF and, to the extent it may not, is very banal, as it merely recounts the activities involved in organizing an election campaign, with some legal minutiae mixed in. Also substantially unverifiable (WP:V), because the definition is unsourced and sources are not readily found given how generic the term is. If sources can be found, perhaps some snippets can be reused in Elections in the United Kingdom or the like. Sandstein 20:51, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, fails WP:DICDEF. Unable to find reliable sources for this generic term. -AuthorAuthor (talk) 18:50, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:45, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per all of the above WP:DICDEF SalmanZ (talk) 23:19, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I can tell that none of the participants so far have ever been directly involved with a UK election campaign (at least at local level), because this is definitely UK political terminology and has been for over 200 years, from the days when British political parties had no formal local organisation, and parliamentary candidates depended on committees of influential local people to help organise their election campaigns. And since at least the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883, it has been the officially-used term for almost any premises used for organising their election campaigns by candidates for parliament or local councils, which are subject to a number of legal requirements about what must and must not be done in committee rooms. These days, British political parties tend to refer to their main premises in an area as "campaign headquarters" or similar, and use the term "committee room" just for smaller premises (often rooms in members' homes) used on election day itself - but legally, they are all committee rooms. Reliable sources will certainly exist (mostly, admittedly, probably legal textbooks or books about how to organise an election campaign without breaking the law - and sometimes several decades old) and should enable the article to be expanded well beyond a WP:DICDEF, but mostly either don't seem to be online at all or only in snippet form. A couple of sources which are good practical guides (if probably not Wikipedia reliable) are this and this. And this more reliable source should put things a little more into context. PWilkinson (talk) 00:19, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As per PWilkinson, this is a real thing with a specific meaning in UK politics that goes beyond a DICDEF. Bondegezou (talk) 23:14, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 23:01, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Per PWilkinson. --Bsherr (talk) 02:50, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Initially closed as keep but after request relisting to get more input from the discussion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tone 08:32, 27 December 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.