Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/East Polish Soviet Socialist Republic


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The result was merge to Jan Ciechanowicz. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:10, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

East Polish Soviet Socialist Republic

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The marginal idea of Jan Ciechanowicz, a Polish activist in Lithuania, was supported by him and his ephemeral Polish Party for Human Rights, which was not even registered in the USSR. The idea was expressed only in the party's program, and was never supported by any concrete action. The party, moreover, probably did not include many people, except the founder. Suggestions that Gorbachev or Jaruzelski supported the idea can be put between fairy tales.

The article itself is erroneous, since this "republic" was intended by the author to include all the lands that belonged to Poland before World War II and were later incorporated into the USSR, that is, part of Lithuania with Vilnius, Western Belarus and Western Ukraine with Lviv. Because of this, I do not suggest a merge with the Jan Ciechanowicz article.

The notion should not be confused with Vilnius autonomy, which was an actual political idea. Marcelus (talk) 18:49, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History, Politics, Lithuania,  and Poland. Marcelus (talk) 18:49, 31 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Weak merge to Jan Ciechanowicz. Interesting historical trivia but likely fails WP:GNG (sources in the article barely meet WP:SIGCOV with regards to it and are also barely reliable). My BEFORE found only two passing mentions in reliable scholarly works. See also ongoing discussion at pl:Wikipedia:Poczekalnia/artykuły/2023:01:31:Wschodniopolska_Socjalistyczna_Republika_Radziecka. Right now I am seeing this as, well, interesting historical trivial that is a bit below notability treshold for a stand-alone article, but deserves to be mentioned in another article and possibly redirected there (note that AFAIK the term doesn't exist in English discourse outside this Wikipedia entry; the translation is literal and technically correct but ORish on the level that English Wikipedia is the only place to use it). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:33, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  10:34, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Substantially trim and merge to Jan Ciechanowicz. Agree with Piotrus, sounds like trivia, but worth a short mention in Ciechanowicz's article. Renata•3 05:12, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge relevant content and redirect to Jan Ciechanowicz, per Piotrus. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 23:38, 5 February 2023 (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.