Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Real Sinn Féin


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:19, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Real Sinn Féin

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I came across this when making Sinn Féin (disambiguation). It strikes me as lacking in notability. As far as I can determine, this party has no elected representatives either at national or local level, and I can't find any evidence that they have ever put anyone forward for elections. Searching for "Real Sinn Féin" in google news archive produces two possible hits (ignoring all the false positives),. Both sources seem to mention the party only in passing. The article cites republican-news.org, which I think fails WP:RS, as it seems to lack a robust editorial system, and it has a clear bias. Overall, this organization fails WP:GNG. Quasi human  &#124;  Talk  14:04, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  Quasi  human  &#124;  Talk  14:39, 6 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - I favor the lowest possible threshold for articles relating to political parties, their youth sections, and their leaders, without regard to size or ideology. This is the sort of material that SHOULD be in a good encyclopedia. The existence of this organization is beyond doubt and I suggest that it should be treated like a town or village, a highway, a high school, or a professional athlete and kept on that basis under WP:IAR — "use common sense to improve the encyclopedia." Carrite (talk) 15:33, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The only possible verifiable information in this article would be "Real Sinn Féin is a group." (per the Herald article). To what extent this is a political party is doubtful. Can you find verifiable information that this is a political party? Wikipedia is not for things made up one day comes to mind here. Quasi  human  &#124;  Talk  15:43, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 15:34, 6 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - certainly fails notability guidelines and politics guidelines. Just one of many small nebulous groups of Irish republicans with unverifiable and changing membership. Best you could do with this info, is a brief mention in article about Irish republican groups. Snappy (talk) 18:35, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Doesn't seem to be a properly constituted or significant party. They don't even have a website, just a blog on Blogspot, the latest entry of which concludes:"well he can go fcuk off + make it write hisself 'cause i do'nt get payed 'nuff 4 all dis righten WTF i am'nt geteN payed at ALL so if u are gonna go 2 thiS gig den brinG sum monies with u 4 me + i;ll write about u hear if u want?":We should cover as many political parties as possible, especially if they stand in elections or get press coverage, but this is just a tiny fringe group that seems to be in chaos. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:23, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Ive spent a bit of time at their "website" and i am still in the dark at to whether or not its a real thing run by clearly disturbed individual or whether its a parody.  If it ever turns out to be a real party then im sure that it will organise better than it currently is and we can stick it back up but for now definitely delete.Eleutherius (talk) 14:16, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
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