Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Intracoastal Democratic Club

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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 of the debate was no consensus. Default to keep. Interested parties are cordially invited to merge and redirect the article as necessary. Ξxtreme Unction|yakkity yak 13:03, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Intracoastal Democratic Club

Local chapter of the Democratic Party (United States) for "Southeastern Volusia County, Florida." A search of Google finds references to the club on the clubs website, the web site for the county chapter of the Democratic Party, a listing on Wikipedia, a telephone listing, a letter to the editor by the club's president, and splattering of personal websites but no independent peer-reviewed sources to provide verification of the claims made in the article.[1] Delete as per WP:V and WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a propaganda machine. --207.136.10.50 15:45, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Article should remain I take issue to this article being deleted as "propaganda". While the article currently may have a bias, it is listed as a stub and is a new article. It is hardly the only biased article on Wikipedia, and bias means the article needs improvement; not deletion. I agree that google doesn't return many results, but google is not the only source for peer reviewed information! I have edited and added to this article, and while I did reference several sites I found via google, I also live in Volusia County (the county in which the group operates) and talked with several people about the group in order to check the accuracy of the information - this included both members of the group and those not associated with it). To my knowledge the information is accurate. I would be happy to continue editing and revising this article, and hope that any bias issues can be addressed on the talk/discussion page rather than just deleting an article because of a political bias for or against the group. Datapharmer 02:11, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Rename/redirect? I am not against the idea of combining the article with an entry on local level Democratic Parties in the State and I would certainly not block a consensus on merging it if others feel it would be appropriate, but I feel it would be innapropriate if merged directly into the Florida Democratic Party article because the article is about the state group not the local ones. There are distinct articles for the state and national level, is there a reason there should not be one at the local level as well? Perhaps a single article that would cover all local democratic groups within the state would solve this issue? Datapharmer 03:50, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Comment That would be fine with me. Durova 17:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Note: article relisted on 13 December 2005. Cheers, fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 14:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep--SockpuppetSamuelson 11:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete or Merge. The general policy seems to be to not keep local groups unless they are notable in their own right. Vegaswikian 06:18, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
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.