Deletion of Pirate Party (United States)

Comment: I wrote this article, and I believe it passes  and . Significant coverage in Wired Magazine, Ars Technica, Variety (magazine)|Variety and ZDNet are considered . In addition, not all political parties are required to nominate their own candidate. If you take a look at List of political parties in the United States, you'll see dozens of examples of political parties that have articles, but have not nominated their own candidates (NOTE: This is not a  argument, i'm just showing that parties in the US are not required to nominate their own people. The PPUS endorsed Obama in 2008
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:ORG||WP:RS||WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS)

Comment: There's no requirement for political parties to be registered or even to have members run for election in order to exist or be notable.  I don't know if it meets  or not but that might be a way to decide whether or not it is notable and verifiable
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ORG)