Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prajatantrik Samajwadi Manch Nepal

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. – Joe (talk) 10:00, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Prajatantrik Samajwadi Manch Nepal[edit]

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Non-notable political party - can't find any refs under the English translation or the Nepali transliteration of the name. Nepali-script name not present, so can't search by that. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:31, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Nepal. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:31, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:24, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This one is was tricky so I'll leave my logic here to see if it makes sense to anyone else: So first I noticed that there is a corresponding version in Bangla Wikipedia; a search in that language revealed literally nothing. After translating the party naming into Nepali using Google Translate, I searched with that and found this Wikidata item ([1]) that links to Nepali and two other languages; I think that is the same party as this. Then after looking some more, I discovered that an article here that has the same name, Samajbadi Janata Party (look at the alternative name). Both articles were created by the same user, 3 years apart. This is a long-winded way of saying I think these are the same article, and so one should be redirected into the other (I would recommend this one into that one, as the other one is more complete). If it is determined that my logic is not sound and these are different parties, then the leader of this party, Dhundi Raj Shastri, is notable per WP:NPOL ([2]), so that could be an alternative redirect target if the article gets made. Curbon7 (talk) 09:58, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Lots of political parties in Nepal have very similar names (look at Category:Political parties in Nepal for more examples), so the fact that Prajatantrik Samajwadi Manch Nepal and Samajbadi Janata Party have faintly similar names is hardly evidence that they are the same party. Soman, the article creator, specializes in creating articles for obscure political parties and he knows enough about what he's doing that I don't believe he would have thoughtlessly created a duplicate article.

As to your second point, the Dhundi Raj Shastri in your source is from the Nepali Congress, the largest political party in Nepal. I can't find any indication that he split from NC to form an obscure splinter party. Without positive evidence, we can't assume it's the same person - plenty of people worldwide have the same name, after all. (The Dhundi Raj Shastri from the NC is an NPOL pass on the merits of being elected though). ♠PMC♠ (talk) 09:13, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:12, 25 April 2022 (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.