Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bring Back British Rail


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  20:13, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Bring Back British Rail

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I strongly suspect this is a case of Wikipedia being used to promote a campaign that has not yet reached the required level of prominence to be documented here.

I keep across any general news regarding UK rail, and dip in and out of the trade press, and yet Wikipedia was the first time I'd ever heard of BBRB. Searches of Google don't reveal much coverage (but obviously, the phrase itself, not as a proper noun, appears lots of times, as renationalisation in general is a perennial topic of discussion). The best I could find was this brief mention in the Guardian, in which it gets one paragraph in the context of a longer piece about renationalisation in general.

For anyone who doesn't know, since the Privatisation of British Rail in 1997, taking the railways in Britain back into state control has been a long running theme in British politics. It is now perhaps looking as likely as it has ever been due to the recent elevation of Jeremy Corbyn to Labour Party leader, although depending on who you believe, that still largely makes it an impossible dream, given the prevailing opinion seems to be that Corbyn is petty much unelectable due to holding left wing opinions just like this.

If I'm reading the history right, it appears that the creator of this article already tried to create it once through the Articles For Creation process, and that failed for the reasons I stated, instead morphing into the Renationalisation of British Rail article without much change - I then merged that article into the privatisation one in July, and again today, after opposition based on a requirement for discussion first, turned out to be groundless.

It worries me that this page iss just two clicks away from the introduction of Corbyn's biography, without any evidence in its current state that anyone is taking notice of it except itself and its ardent supporters (it's never even been name-checked by Corbyn that I can see, and his proposed method would seem to be a little slow for BBRB's liking? ). Kristian Jenn (talk) 16:35, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Well I for one support it being "unprivatized" (If that's even a word!), But anywho it's a non notable campaign and to be totally honest until this minute I never even knew a campaign ever existed!, Anyway Fails GNG. – Davey 2010 Talk 16:59, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete -- The Renationalisation article is now a redirect to Privatisation of British Rail. That is a long article and deals with the campaigning for renationalisation.  I have never heard of BBBR, and strongly suspect that it is a small NN group.  Essentially this is a POV fork, but I doubt there is any content worth merging back to the Privatisation article.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:54, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete for now and draft and userfy if needed as the best links I found were this and this. SwisterTwister   talk  05:09, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - appears to be a non-notable organization (or should I say organisation, it being a British org ). Searches did not turn up enough in-depth coverage to meet notability criteria.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:34, 12 October 2015 (UTC)


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