Talk:Wales Green Party

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This article states that the Wales Green Party is the "only local party with autonomous status within the GPEW". What is the GPEW? I can find no mention in the artcle to the GPEW and no link on Wikipedia. Can someone please put tidy this up??? Rhyddfrydol 21:22 8th September 2005 (UTC)

The clue is in the preceeding sentence: the Green Party of England and Wales Twrist 17:27, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

How can it be a party within a party? Furthermore how can it be only semi-autonomous within the Green Party England and Wales. It sounds like a regional branch of the Green Party E&W and NOT an actual party like the Scottish Greens. I can find absolutely nothing Green Party Wales orientated in the electoral commission Drowz0r (talk) 10:48, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... The Welsh Greens have a semi-autonomous status and have their own leadership. Given that other Welsh parties have their own pages (e.g. Welsh Conservative Party, Welsh Labour Party), and that the Wales has its own devolved elections, the Welsh Greens article should remain. Neither the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Labour are separate parties registered with the Electoral Commission, they are - like the Welsh Greens - semi-autonomous parts of their respective parties who have their own leaders and staff, while still being a part of the UK party. The article could certainly be improved, but it shouldn't be deleted. --Frinton100 (talk) 11:31, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

No evidence of Welsh Greens having semi-autonomous status or what semi-autonomous status actually extends to (or basically what that means - I see it repeated but it's meaningless without definition). No citations to this effect either. No media coverage. The Green Party of Wales is NOT a Welsh Party. There is only the Green Party of England & Wales. The Welsh Labour or Welsh Conservatives are a separately registered party with the electoral commission. They campaign under this. They show on the voting form as this. The "Green Party Wales" does not do any of this. Absolutely no citations to this effect from any editor or anyone showing Greens should have a separate page. -- Drowz0r (talk) 01:59, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

P.S. Just because a party or a collection of parties have a regional split on a different page, it does not mean every party should get the same. Labour and Cons are huge by comparison to the Greens. UKIP are more the Greens size - and do not have their own page for their Wales branch. -- Drowz0r (talk) 02:02, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

@Drowz0r: Welsh Labour and Tories are not separate parties registered with the EC. They are part of their respective UK parties. Welsh Labour Party and Welsh Conservative Party are registered descriptions of those parties, which you can see by looking at the party's record on the EC site. Labour for example have registered the descriptions "Welsh Labour", "Welsh Labour Candidate" and "Welsh Labour Party Candidate". All of these can be used on the ballot paper by Welsh Labour candidates, but they can only be authorised for use by the UK Labour Party nominating officer based in the London head office. If you search for "Welsh Labour" in the EC registration search the results you get are the UK Labour Party and the UK Co-operative Party (Labour's sister party). There is no separate registration for Welsh Labour. See http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Registrations/PP53 for details.

Similarly, the Green Party have registered "Wales Green Party" as a description. So the GPEW could use this as a description on the ballot if they choose to. http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Registrations/PP63

The Welsh Greens are different to the other English regions of the GPEW in that they have their own leader. I completely accept, as I said above, that the article can be improved and more detail is required as to the structure and organisation of the Welsh Greens, and it needs someone with some more knowledge of the GPEW to do this. I certainly don't believe it deserves deleting. Frinton100 (talk) 13:12, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

@Frinton100: My mistake, they are not separately registered - however Greens in Wales do not have any MPs, AMs or MEPs, so comparing them to Labour/Cons is a bit fruitless. They are closer to UKIP in terms of size, which do not have a regional welsh page despite having more Welsh representation than the Greens. This is not enough to give a party a separate page. Nothing notable has happened for the Welsh Greens.

The article should be deleted until:

1) the Welsh Greens get some kind of representation in Wales

or

2) Something notable happens and they are in the media

I can find nothing in the media about the "Welsh Green Party" except the Welsh Spokesperson, which essentially all parties have. Ironically these media outlets are generally just reporting she used to drive a 2.0 jag and did a psychic reading with chicken bones... which has not featured in this article.

There are groupings for Left wing Greens, Young Greens, Feminist Greens, Cornish Greens... none of those have a page.

This page does not meet the requirements set by wikipedia and as such should be deleted. Should someone wish to re-make the page with appropriate citations, then long live that new page but currently there isn't a single citation backing up any of the claims that isn't from the GPW's own site. In four years, not a single citation - so I'm not sure why allowing more time will benefit this page. Drowz0r (talk) 22:39, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

@Drowz0r: The Welsh leader is more than just a spokesperson, she is elected by the membership. I found plenty of articles about the current leader and deputy, the latter not particularly helpful to the Green Party, but none of which (as far as I can see, and I admit I did only skim some parts) mention jaguars or psychics. The article needs work, not deletion as I said before. Frinton100 (talk) 23:19, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

@Frinton100: Yes I am aware Pippa was elected, her last election was contested with Andy Chyba back when the role was defined as Spokesperson. She was elected as Spokesperson. I wasn't aware it was recently redefined as Welsh Leader - then again this article doesn't contain any citations so it is hard to tell. I suspect through co-opting of some sort the role has now been deemed Welsh Leader and does not need re-election? These kind of things need to be in the article and need citations.

The chicken bones thing was on an episode of "Come Dine With Me". The Jag has been in a lot of media... she swapped to a Nissan Leaf because people wouldn't shut up about it. Personally I find the jag thing a bit stupid, as if to suggest her single car could save the planet...

Some sources on jag and psychic reading:

Sun Nation

UK Media Watch

Wales Eye

Here is the channel 4 episode itself showing Pippa do the reading.

It has had four years to produce citations and it doesn't meet the wikipedia criteria for page creation. It basically fails on all fronts... Drowz0r (talk) 23:33, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

P.S. The new deletion tag is only to be removed if the article is improved, sourced, renamed or merged... or something. I am adding it to the discussion list now, I suggest if you think the article should stay, you join the debate. Drowz0r (talk) 23:42, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

RfC - delete or improve?

Should the article be deleted or improved? If the latter, how do we go about it? Frinton100 (talk) 08:00, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

• Comment - this is not a valid reason for an RfC. That is what AfD is for: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wales Green Party —Мандичка^YO 😜 09:16, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
• 'I think DrowzOr has made a very meticulous case for deletion of the article. Activist (talk) 03:15, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Deletion review created

I have now requested a deletion review here; Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2015 November 2 Jimmy3d0 (talk) 20:12, 2 November 2015 (UTC)