Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jews and political radicalism


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:12, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Jews and political radicalism

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Bizarre topic, only one source, reads like an essay Keepcalmandchill (talk) 07:55, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Keepcalmandchill (talk) 07:55, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 08:21, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 08:21, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Weak delete This sounds like a cross-section of topics, rather than like a topic in and of itself. Something that would invite a lot of original research, and not much serious information. Debresser (talk) 08:30, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * For example, the whole 20th century section is a general and unsourced statement, followed by a subsection about themes in antisemitism. Both should simply be deleted. Debresser (talk) 10:11, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment Realistically, if all the material in the "Further reading" section is actually relevant to the article, it would be a hard job proving non-notability. In fact I doubt I would try. I guess a redirect to Jewish Left might be best: I refuse to countenance the suggestion that the topic itself has no notability.  "Bizarre" indeed.   ——  SN  54129  09:38, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment -- The amount of content in the bibliography implies that there is a lot to be said. I suspect that Jewish left is in fact an incomplete article, but rather than expanding it too much, it may be better to have articles in that subject in particular countries.  There is a long section in that on UK, but very little on the pre-1917 reaction to Russian pogroms.  I see nothing on US, except in the reading list; and I might go on.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:09, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment I see two editors already, who refer to the large amount of literature and think that here is a subject here. I am pretty sure this is not the case, and the bibliography is more of a list of readings that might or might not contain some interesting information which might or might not be relevant to the article. I admit that many Jews were on the forefront of the communist revolution in Russia, and that is something that may be documented, but I doubt there is much literature about Jews and political radicalism in general. Debresser (talk) 18:04, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete or at least draftify. At the moment there is nothing in the article that justifies its existence. Participation of Jews could be relevant in articles on specific social movement, but unless their Jewishness was a key aspect of their participation (example: Zionism) even that is doubtful. A much better reason for an article on the topic in the general sense is needed. Zerotalk 02:03, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. That might be a legitimate topic if properly written and sourced (one needs strong RS which describe the subject as a whole to avoid WP:Coatrack here). However, as written, this is all WP:OR. Sources in "Further reading" are not about Jewish radicalism, but about Jews and socialism/communism. They can be used in Jewish Left. My very best wishes (talk) 02:52, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete There isn't really a point to this article as the Jewish Left article is much more comprehensive while this article is pretty much just one quote. Zoozaz1talk 17:57, 7 May 2020 (UTC)


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