Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Maharashtra

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 delete. The entire unsourced content was "Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Maharashtra is a splinter faction of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) in Maharashtra. The party was classified as a moderate Naxal outfit." A sourced recreation is possible. Sandstein 09:04, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Maharashtra

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All of these "splinter party" articles (there were a bunch of them created today) should either be deleted or merged into a single list of such organizations or redirected to the Communist Party of India. Having a dozen unreferenced stub articles is pointless. KDS4444 (talk) 12:09, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:53, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Also happen to bundle the remaining stubs into this AfD and support deleting them as well. Ajf773 (talk) 18:48, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete. The author flooded with dozens of articles without any sources. Nonthing suggests notability. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 18:55, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, merging articles to the CPI article would be very, very wrong, not the least considering the amount of bad blood between CPI and the Naxal factions. CPI and the CPI(ML) factions have very different developments since the splits of the 1960s. As per sourcing, CPI(ML) Maharashtra is one of the Naxal factions that was active in the years preceding WWW (to my memory it is a group active in the 1990s). It was an underground party, thus not publishing much detail about its organization and leadership publicly, and was active in the phase when academic/journalistic interest for Naxal movement was relatively low (there was a phase of writing in English on Naxal groups late 1970s/1980s and again after 2004...). So sourcing would certainly be complicated. That said I think that low google hit counts should not be taken as immediate proof that CPI(ML) Maharashtra and similar groups would have been irrelevant. --Soman (talk) 21:29, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. and try to source. There is no indication whatsoever that WP:BEFORE was carried out here, and it's part of Deletion Policy. We do not delete articles just for being unsourced. It might for example, turn out that they haver run candidates in elections--and we always keep such political parties. DGG ( talk ) 22:58, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Unsourced stub about a faction, not a party. Carrite (talk) 11:35, 18 August 2017 (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.