Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ophadano


 * 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 delete. Consensus is for deletion. Independent, reliable sources that have discussed this topic appear not to have been produced. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:36, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Ophadano

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A micro-nation that is not the subject of substantial coverage; neither dailyscanner.com nor paxjones.com are remotely a reliable source and the only other coverage appears to be Ophadano's own site. Created by an SPA. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 01:55, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions.  Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  02:23, 6 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. This is a non-notable, dishonest pseudo-country. I say "dishonest" because its website proclaims, "Pursuant to the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States; if you are a signatory of the Convention, or an agency or instrumentality of a signatory, you agree that any interaction with this Domain shall result in an act which implies the ‘intention of recognizing the new state’ and shall result in your State’s de facto tacit recognition of Ophadano pursuant to Article 7." In other words, government officials of many countries in North and South America are not even allowed to look at the Ophadano website without Ophadano claiming that their government has recognized it as an independent state. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:14, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per above and nom. I'm half convinced this is just a media stunt.  // Timothy ::  talk  04:32, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Article creator's sole activity on WP has been spamming articles like Terra nullius and Bir Tawil with links promoting this "non-territorial entity"--and I couldn't even tell if it was supposed to be that kind of entity, or Yet Another Microstate or what, even from the entity's own web site.  Author is clearly not here to build the encyclopedia.  --Finngall talk  06:18, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete this is an agressively written article clearly POV-pushing a concept as having some legal standing which it does not in fact count. For the record I did not look at the website. Since I am a countract employee of a program which receives federal funding, I probably could not in any way be construed to be an agent of the US government, but I wanted to avoid any attempt to portray my actions as that of the government.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:03, 6 August 2020 (UTC)


 * KEEPHow can the page be made better? Ophadano is not a 'micronation' or a 'pseudo-country' and its disclaimers on its website are not 'dishonest'. Ophadano is a jurisdiction defined in the Kitwe Charter recognized by Zambia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emmanuel Scuaze (talk • contribs) 08:39, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Keep For the record, ophadano is a 'legal' entity. I added distinct ophadano literature into the Article including two constitutions and a declaration of independence. These works were published by 'His Ophadano's Government' in the United States and are currently being sold globally. How can we make the article better? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emmanuel Scuaze (talk • contribs) 08:49, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The best way to make this article better would be to find independent, reliable sources that have discussed this topic and use them in order to cite the facts in the article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 22:53, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as unverifiable creation of SPA. --Lockley (talk) 03:06, 9 August 2020 (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.