Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Red bloc


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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 15:18, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Red bloc

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I can't find any coverage of this protest tactic in reliable sources. As the article notes, the phrase "red bloc" has a number of meanings, including the Eastern Bloc and various electoral coalitions; an article based on significant coverage in reliable sources could perhaps be pieced together, but would fall foul of WP:COATRACK and WP:FRANKENSTEIN. (This was prodded by me and deprodded by DGG in August 2018.) – Arms & Hearts (talk) 00:32, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:45, 25 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete per rationale; I'm not finding coverage either. Even if notable, this is not the PRIMARYTOPIC, as you can tell by googling "Red bloc". The word often refers to ad hoc electoral coalitions, and would be difficult to disambiguate. buidhe 05:01, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete I cannot find WP:SIGCOV for "red bloc," defined on page as "a distinct contingent at rallies or protests notable for carrying red flags, as well as dressing up in red,... as well as often accompanied with communist or socialist iconography," although I have no reason to doubt that it has happened. Page gives a single (unreliably sourced) instance, and an actual photo of a Trotskyite bloc marching in red (amusingly, they are marching through Melbourne, the most  bourgeois city on the planet,) but NOT the sort of sources required by WP:NEOLOGISM.  Page offers two more definitions: "The term has also been used as an alternate spelling of Red Block, referring to the Communist nations during the Cold War, and to a coalition of political parties established for the sake of forming a parliamentary majority." these are quite accurate but WP:NOTDICTIONARY.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:58, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. The term has a specific use per the example cited in Denmark in one of the sources, but the article isn’t about that, it’s about ‘a bunch of people who show up at demos with red stuff’, a completely meaningless designation.Mccapra (talk) 06:17, 1 February 2019 (UTC)


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