Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moravané


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The result was   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 07:47, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Moravané

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Czech Republic political party which garnered all of "0.23 % of popular votes" in 2006 election. Fails WP:GNG. I do not want to get caught up in Czech Republic politics, but this article seems to exist solely as a political statement. More foreign language sources may exist, but this will probably never be a good fit on English-language Wikipedia. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 14:28, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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 * Keep. While the party is really electorally weak and will never pass the 5% threshold to reach the Chamber of Deputies, it is a notable part of Czech political folklore. It is also the strongest purely regional political party in the Czech Republic and represents the interesting millieu of Moravian autonomists. - Darwinek (talk) 21:57, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: Shouldn't we ask Czech-speaking editors to find sources? There's probably little in English but I wouldn't be surprised if there is significant coverage in Czech. -- Cycl o pia talk  19:57, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep This party is an important political subject "representing the interests" of Moravia (a large and significant part of the Czech Republic). The article is sourceable, I found two articles published by Mladá fronta DNES, another coverage by Czech Television, Czech Radio , etc.  . Preserving this kind of information is important for better understanding of political and ethnic situation in the Central European region. ...I have to admit that I watch their meetings and funny marches with a kind of silent amusement :) --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 21:57, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. Although this extremist party gained only 0,22 % votes (= 11,900 people) in last 2010 elections it is important for political milieu of Czechia because of its clear-cut ideology. No other Czech party holds such opinions and makes similar actions like this one: strong regionalism, firm opposite against Czech nation (though Moravians, Silesians and Bohemians are – at least from linguistic and historical point of view – practically undistinguishable) and Czech government, calling for autonomy/(con)federative arrangement of Czechia (more precisely: effort to dismantle Czech state), aggressive, insistent and clamorous campaigns (various webs (including videos on YT), public candle- and flag marches, flying the yellow-red flag (20 years ago totally unknown) at city halls in Moravia, insulting the Czechs and the President of the Republic, persuading people from Moravia to stop account themselves as Czechs etc. etc.) and, last but not least, party members' and sympathizers' systematic attacks on the Czech Wikipedia (several cases per week). All these facts illustrated how special is role of the Moravists on Czech political scene – this party is main troublemaker in the area of separatism, ultra-regionalism and national minority vs. majority controversies. Well, presently most inhabitants of Moravia remain immune to their propaganda but hereafter – who knows?? This party also started as a small group... As for sourcing: if someone lacks any source please tag it. I will ensure completion (mostly in Czech, of course, because there aren't many articles about this miniparty in English). --Iaroslavvs (talk) 02:12, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
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