Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/People's Justice Party (UK)

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 keep. (non-admin closure) Yashovardhan (talk) 07:01, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

People's Justice Party (UK)

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Non-notable political party fails to pass WP:GNG and WP:ORG. Greenbörg (talk) 08:15, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 15:22, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 15:22, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 15:22, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

• Delete Power~enwiki (talk) 20:00, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
  • Any reason why? Velociraptor888 21:14, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
• Keep I added a couple of sources, plenty more out there on this short-lived political party, not only in news articles but in books. Here's a gBooks search on "people's justice party" + Birmingham [1]. Editorial time could have been better spent improving article. If someone takes the time to expand it, it will fly pass WP:GNG.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:03, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
• Revisiting this discussion, I did a WP:HEYMANN-lite to the article, which is now adequately sourced. Note especially the fact that this Party began as the Free Riaz and Quayyam Campaign, a movement among Muslim Kashmiri immigrants to free the two terrorists who kidnapped and murdered Indian diplomat Ravindra Mhatre in Birmingham, England in an effort to support Pakistani control of Kashmir.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:24, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:16, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

• Comment the article has too many problems for me to pick just one. I would support a merge/redirect if one is proposed. Power~enwiki (talk) 02:35, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

1. As a political party based in a single city that never had more than 5 local councilors, it's not notable.
2. The history section reads merely as a narrative of every press appearance they ever made, many are trivial in nature.
3. Ideally, this would be a candidate to merge into a different article. If any of the members were notable, it could redirect to them. But none of them appear to be.
4. There are pages such as Birmingham City Council election, 2014, but none dating far enough back for this party. I have no ability nor desire to create them.

• User:Power~enwiki, Note that as with any topic, a political party becomes notable when it passes WP:GNG. Even a very small party may be notable if journalists and scholars regard it's impact as notable. In this case the party has been the subject of in-depth new articles :like this one in The Guardian [2], and this one "Future of Kashmiri party 'in doubt'.," [3] . and is discussed in articles [4] and in several books [5] about the role of immigrant groups in British politics.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:43, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

• Keep. Political parties which win any elections, even joke ones, are going to be kept. And this one meets GNG apparently. --doncram 23:30, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

• Comment there's a difference between a political party that's an organization, and one that's a flag-of-convenience for candidates who would otherwise run as independent. I see no sources suggesting this party was the former. Power~enwiki (talk) 22:05, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

• Keep. Other than the fact it meets WP:GNG, it has clear international dimensions connecting it to the Kashmir dispute. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:17, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
• Keep. As per above. --- Tyler Durden (talk) 03:35, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

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