Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Action Iran


 * 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 Merge useful content and Delete ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 20:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Action Iran

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Defunct British anti-war group. A Google search for "Action Iran" is meaningless because the words are very common, but a search for "Action Iran" anti-war group gets only about 600 results, of which only about 200 are unique. Of these 200 results, many are sites that contain a phrase such as "...action. Iran" or "...action, Iran..." Browsing through the organization's website, I don't see any evidence that they did anything notable such as organized a significant protest. Given that the organization no longer exists and will never become notable, the article should be deleted. GabrielF 06:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Gets '1' hit in the blog Payvand's Iran News, and as such, violates our WP:Notability rules.  Morton DevonshireYo  18:42, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Static Universe 19:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge to Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran. This group formally merged in to larger umbrella group, thus merger is more appropriate than deletion.  --70.51.231.96 21:27, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep A google search on "Action Iran" anti-war gets 13,700 hits ("Action Iran" anti-war group gets 601 hits - i agree). WP:Notability is not about popularity nor about wikipedia editors' subjective judgments of notability. The article now includes five references from different sources, most of whom themselves are notable in the wikipedia sense. Boud 03:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Most of the results for a search on "Action Iran" anti-war beyond the first four or five are irrelevant. The article cites seven sources, two are from the organization, one is from the group Action Iran merged into, one is from Internet Archive which accepts submissions from anyone and doesn't meet WP:RS, the remaining three are from anti-war websites. None of these demonstrates the group's notability. GabrielF 17:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * one is from the group Action Iran merged into: that only implies that the groups have a common interest, it does not provide any evidence that prior to the merger, they should be considered as a single organisation; the Internet Archive is in-depth material (to some extent) - it presents a video; the remaining three are from anti-war websites - so are you claiming that anti-war websites are not reliable sources? That's your personal POV. Alex Callinicos may call himself a "Marxist", but he nevertheless has a reasonably solid wikipedia page. Boud 20:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Please read: Notability_(organizations). It is sufficient that the scope of the organisation is international (which it clearly is) and that it's verified by a third party (which it clearly is, by several third parties). It may have been a small organisation, in fact this seems fairly clear, but that doesn't change the fact that it was a "third-party-confirmed" organisation whose "scope of activities was international". i've written this in a more structured form on the talk page Talk:Action Iran. Boud 20:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletions.   --  &rArr;  bsnowball  10:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge. This is what we did with Peace Action, where the groups that made up Peace Action were described under a "history" heading.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge. I agree with SchuminWeb
 * They do have a "website or anything". Please look at "External links" in the article. You'll find: http://www.actioniran.org.uk/ Boud 20:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry. I got mixed up, thinking of a different article. SeanWDP 20:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 17:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 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.

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