Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pharsh

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The result of the debate was delete. Eugene van der Pijll 21:13, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Pharsh
So-called Israeli private militia, founded 3 months ago, dedicated to the "Silly Revolution." No Google hits (other than their own website), no sign of any independent news coverage, and the same editor added silly edits to Passion fruit regarding this group. It appears to be non-notable, and perhaps a hoax. Delete. Willmcw 21:55, August 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn silliness. -- Etacar11   22:24, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Willmcw. -- BD2412 talk 20:53, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

The "Silly Revolution", while still rather unknown, has real substance to it, and the events described - although not "serious" by nature - did actually occur. Unfortunately for international interest, all media coverage of the organization has remained local - meaning no english-language links are available for reference (besides our own site).

The use of Wikipedia was intended for precisely this reason - to bring our movement to a broader international audience. Whether or not this is a legitimate use of Wikipedia is for you to decide, as we have no intention to force our ideology on anyone, but we do believe that our entry is not completely without merit. "silly" does not, in our opinion, necessarily equate with "Dumb", "pointless", or "superfluous". I think that Wikipedia readers/users should be allowed to decide for themselves how much thought (or lack of it) our militia deserves.

Independent Links regarding "Pharsh" and the "Silly Revolution" (unfortunately in Hebrew):

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3119283,00.html (please note almost 250 (!) responses)

http://food.nana.co.il/article.php?id=1017 http://b.walla.co.il/?w=/3900/754267 http://news.msn.co.il/news/Yellow/Internal/200507/2005072921802.htm http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?format=wm&ak=null&S=DAF82FC95EB24C5F9DBBD4CE3A8A9414&ClipMediaID=71895 http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART/967/087.html

DardaDos 15:19, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

P.S. we are anything but a "private" militia
 * Using Wikipedia to promote your movement is definitely a violation of "what wikipedia is not". See WP%3ANOT. --  Etacar11   15:48, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


 * do you really think what we wrote constitutes propaganda? (in the classical sense). I would also be more than happy if someone else wanted to look through our site, read the articles, see the interviews, and write an "objective" entry on us. Volunteers? DardaDos 16:55, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Pharsh is not an unknown organization. Its activities have been covered by all the major news outlets in Israel, including press, television, radio and internet sources. Indeed, coverage of Pharsh has been so widespread that several satiric shows complained of the "oversaturation" of media by Pharsh. In addition to news articles, editorials have apeared in the press including the nations leading daily newspaper. While irritating, Pharsh is unfortunatly not a minor cultural phenomen in Israel.

Yaron Nahari
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