Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Republican communism


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The result was   delete. Jayjg (talk) 04:36, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Republican communism

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This appears to be an essentially made up concept, or a neologism not in common circulation. Other than references to "red republican communism" by Marx which are unrelated to Ireland, the only references I can find to "republican communism" in relation to Ireland are the use of the phrase in a letter by Irish government official Thomas J. Coyne in the 1940s, and a quote from Fortnightly in 1933 saying "but now open to all males of good character who are prepared to pledge themselves to resist Republican-Communism". I can find no modern usage of the term, and certainly no sources that apply it to the organisations listed in the article. O Fenian (talk) 19:57, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - it doesn't make sense. Using the definition at republicanism (the head of state is not hereditary), just how many communist countries aren't "republican"?  Even the Soviet Union called itself the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China is the People's Republic of China.  Any communist organization in the US would be "republican" unless they are planning to install a monarchy.  This article really makes no sense. --B (talk) 20:52, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:33, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:33, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:34, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete as unsourced original research. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 17:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I found where the article creator got this from, it is in the Dictionary Of Public Administration: "Republican communism is a variant of republicanism that advocates independent communist states in countries such as Ireland and Scotland." But it's only a definition, so hardly adequate basis for an article. Fences  &amp;  Windows  21:26, 27 June 2010 (UTC) Delete. Forget that, that book was written in 2007 so plainly takes its definition from Wikipedia; using that as a source would be factlaundering.  Fences  &amp;  Windows  21:28, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Of course, if anyone wants to write an article on Irish republicanism and socialism, there'd be plenty of sources. Fences  &amp;  Windows  21:33, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Original research.  TFD (talk) 00:35, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - many of the groups listed are based in reality on extended families, and my copy of The Communist Manifesto says "Workers of the world unite" on the title page. You can't unite and be independent at the same time.Red Hurley (talk) 17:58, 28 June 2010 (UTC)


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