Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British National Party election results (2nd nomination)
It is hard to view this nomination immediately after a deletion review as anything other than disruptive, and I hope this AFD will be promptly closed as an abuse of process.  In case that doesn't happen, I will make the case for keeping it (though I do wonder whether this is going to become a recurring saga).   The significance of the BNP as a subject of detailed study is not that it shows any immediate sign of gaining power, but that it rejects much of the current structures of the British society: AFAIK there is no other political party in the UK whose membership is regarded as grounds for dismissal from employment (see British_National_Party#2008_membership_list_leak|2008 membership list leak).  Regardless of whether anyone supports or opposes the BNP, it is a highly controversial party whose electoral record is much more widely and deeply scrutinised than that of any other small party, both in the press and in academia and elsewhere.  For some examples of the voluminous analysis of the BNP and its predecessor the National Front, see: http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/redir.pl?url=http://www.jrrt.org.uk/Far_Right_REPORT.pdf&handle=sosig1145537923-28000 Far Right in London: a Challenge for Local Democracy, http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/redir.pl?url=http://www.jrct.org.uk/core/documents/download.asp?id=140&handle=sosig1145870747-12358 British National Party: Inside the Roots of Its Appeal, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V9P-4ST45M1-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=9767a5d48f7977e07806db2838b039bc Local context and extreme right support in England: The British National Party in the 2002 and 2003 local elections, http://www.informaworld.com/index/713722453.pdf ‘A day to make history’? The 2004 elections and the British National Party, http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snsg-01982.pdf Electoral performance of far-right parties in the UK, http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/XXXI/3/282 The National Front Vote, http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/ab82a6805797760f80256b4f005da1ab/17bfb816da5cef8b80256b6d005787d8/$FILE/betz.pdf Exclusionary Populism in Western Europe in the 1990s and Beyond, http://rac.sagepub.com/cgi/framedrapidpdf/45/2/75.pdf Examining the Success of the British National Party, 1999--2003, http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gsn043 The Canary in a Coalmine? Explaining the Emergence of the British National Party in English Local Politics ... and that's only a small selection, which excludes the newspapers. There's a http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/bnp-far-right whole section of ''The Guardian'' full of related articles, and http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?scope=all&tab=all&q=bnp+%22british+national+party%22+%22election+results%22 a similar mountain of coverage on the BBC news website.The nominator complains that the article lacks independent evidence of the significance of the BNP's electoral performance, but that is at best an argument for improving and expanding the article.  However, the context of this article is well set out at British National Party#Electoral_performance, and this article is clearly marked there as a breakout section per .Finally, the nominator fears that the data will "give undue weight to the minor successes of this reviled bunch of extremists", which part from being deeply POV is a clear breach of 
— User:BrownHairedGirl, 23:30, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SPLIT||WP:NOTCENSORED (Wikipedia:Splitting)