Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bangkok 12th district

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The result was keep. This is close to a 'no consensus' closure. (non-admin closure) J 947 01:20, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bangkok 12th district

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In contrast to some other countries, electoral districts in Thailand have no historical significance as they change from election to election. It is the elections, not the districts, that are the subject of coverage, and the districts aren't themselves notable. Paul_012 (talk) 18:08, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Thailand-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 17:23, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I believe the districts are notable even if they only exist for a single election. Number 5 7 17:34, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It looks as though these articles mostly contain information about results for that district. Would it be reasonable to merge them into an article or articles in the style of this one? Layzner (Talk) 18:22, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- It's a reasonable suggestion, but I doubt there'd ever be enough interest to make a passable article. The part about the disqualification and re-election could probably be merged into a few sentences in Thai general election, 2011 though. --Paul_012 (talk) 10:08, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Note that two articles are nominated for deletion herein.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:05, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:59, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:23, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:23, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep; electoral districts are in of themselves notable – in this case, it seems appropriate to provide boundaries by year. An alternative solution – or perhaps one to supplement this – might be to create an article like Results of the Thai general election, 2011 and list election results by year there as well. Mélencron (talk) 23:01, 25 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It would still be wholly inappropriate to have the same article covering totally unrelated districts from different elections, which just happen to share the same number, as in the current case. If there's interest in developing these articles, your alternative solution (including dedicated discussions on the constituency maps for each election) would be preferable. Merging these two articles there would result in a woefully incomplete article discussing only 2 out of 500 districts though (which is why I suggested just merging into the main election article). --Paul_012 (talk) 07:41, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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