Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pirate Party (Ireland)


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 04:51, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Pirate Party (Ireland)

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Fails Notablity. This political party never successfully registered as a political party nor contested any elections nor engaged in activism that was reported upon. In fact, the article is actually discussing 3 separate organisations: An Irish party that existed between 2009 and 2011, a separate organisation that existed from 2012 to 2014 (as noted in the article) and an unaffiliated student group. There are almost no reliable secondary sources for these groups; Irish national newspapers only cover the foundation of the original party in 2009 and nothing thereafter. It seems that Pirate Party (Kazakhstan) was deleted for a similar lack of notability/inability to actually organise.

I will note a number of other Pirate Party branches with very similar issues in subsequent edits:

I am also nominating the following related pages because they have the same primary issue as the Irish branch; they lack notability. These articles simply note their founding and no subsequent information. In most cases, exactly like the Irish branch, they were founded and never advanced beyond that:
 * - Danish Wikipedia does not suggest the party ever contested elections or that it was otherwise politically active
 * - Bulgarian Wikipedia does not suggest the party ever contested elections or that it was otherwise politically active
 * - Latvian Wikipedia does not suggest the party ever contested elections or that it was otherwise politically active
 * - Estonian Wikipedia does not suggest the party ever contested elections or that it was otherwise politically active
 * - Estonian Wikipedia does not suggest the party ever contested elections or that it was otherwise politically active
 * - Estonian Wikipedia does not suggest the party ever contested elections or that it was otherwise politically active

CeltBrowne (talk) 01:46, 8 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete all. Wikipedia is not a Gazetteer of political parties, particularly if they haven't achieved electoral success or other notable achievements within electoral politics. If these parties were created but never realised then their articles shouldn't be retained. doktorb wordsdeeds 05:50, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete all, I agree with the above. --Bduke (talk) 06:31, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete all as they all fail notability. Spleodrach (talk) 08:15, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment - I've added Pirate Party of Montenegro to the list "post script" as well after the first three votes, I hope this isn't an issue. CeltBrowne (talk) 12:30, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete the Bulgarian one. I'm not checking the others. --Nk (talk) 06:14, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Politics, Morocco, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia,  and Montenegro.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:47, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete The Irish example is barely a party, much closer to an account of a website. Its claim to notability seems to be bases on the UK Pirate Party existing. :Iveagh Gardens (talk) 16:16, 13 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete, but only because all of the actual news links on the page 404 or relate to Sweden. It looks like they got some independent press a decade or so ago, but none of those articles are verifiable anymore because they weren't archived. If we had them, I'd probably vote to keep. Kalethan (talk) 20:03, 13 July 2023 (UTC)


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