Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wales Green Party

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 merge to Green Party of England and Wales. The nomination for deletion is based on lack of independent reliable sources. This is countered by haminoon's statement that a news search provides such sources. This appears to be true. Most of the AfD discussion involves consideration of the autonomy of the Wales Green Party. That is interesting and worthwhile, though our guideline on local branches of larger organisations (WP:BRANCH) deals with the coverage of such branches in reliable sources, rather than how autonomous they are. It is not about who or what controls the organisation, but how independently notable they are within Wikipedia's guidelines. The statement that there is coverage in reliable sources needs to be balanced against the guidance that the coverage should "extend beyond the chapter's local area". While the news sources that talk about the Wales Green Party are mainly Welsh - South Wales Argus, Wales Online, etc, there are some national sources: ITV, BBC, but not many, and the coverage is barely significant. The Wales Green Party exists and is verifiable. It has attracted some coverage, though mostly limited to its own territory. There are suggestions to merge or simply redirect the title to Green Party of England and Wales, and this seems an appropriate outcome. Though the majority of ivotes are for "Keep", the lack of significant enough national coverage weighs against that option at the moment. A merge into the Green Party of England and Wales would allow the main points about the Welsh branch to be available to readers, and that information, if it builds, and gains national coverage, can later be split back out into a standalone article. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:52, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]