Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Party designation in early United States Congresses

Party designation in early United States Congresses was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was REDIRECT

• Delete. Awkward article title, contains scant information that is all duplicated in many other places (and if there is anything that isn't, it should be merged elsewhere anyway). Postdlf 07:28, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC) Relisted due to no agreement on where article should be merged -- Graham ☺ | Talk 20:01, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
• Don't delete, merge and redirect instead. Gdr 12:14, 2004 Jul 5 (UTC)
• Merge appropriately. No need even to redirect (unless a bunch of things point to it & we're being lazy): it's an unlikely title for anyone to search on. -- Jmabel 03:07, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)

Comment: Consensus appears to be to merge and redirect this material, but no indication has been given where this should be merged and redirected to. Please provide some indication of where this information (if any) should be. Note: when merging the old article should always be redirected to preserve the edit history. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 23:29, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• The thing is there really isn't anything that needs to be merged. I shifted the redirects that were responsible for almost all of the article's links—Anti-Administration Party and Pro-Administration Party to Anti-Federalist Party (precursor to the Democrat-Republicans) and United States Federalist Party, which the article itself says those were the early terms for. Now all that's left pointing to this article are a couple of "see alsos". I suppose if anywhere, put it in the history section of United States Congress. But this is worthless to leave as a redirect—just delete the two "see alsos" and we're done with it. Postdlf 19:31, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Comment: I've placed the text that was in the article on Talk:History of the United States (1789-1849); those working on that article can use or ignore, as they see fit. -- Jmabel 23:25, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.