Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russian interference in the 2016 United Kingdom referendum on exiting the European Union


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus. Well, first off whether Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum or not is of no relevance to the question of whether we can have an article discussing this. We have plenty of articles on even bogus things and the inclusion criteria of Wikipedia relevant to this are WP:GNG and WP:NOTNEWS not "this (possibly) didn't happen". Apparently as-is it's not clear if the article topic merits being its own page or whether this will change in the future, so going for "no consensus". I don't see much discussion on the NOTNEWS point, either. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:46, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Russian interference in the 2016 United Kingdom referendum on exiting the European Union

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This article is entirely based on rumors and political speculation. Not encyclopedic until something concrete emerges. — JFG talk 01:56, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep- I think this is as much of a hoax as a lot of the other Russian interference garbage out there. However, given the *article is sourced and this has gotten media coverage, its a legitimate topic. Of course guidelines in WP:FRINGE must be followed.--Rusf10 (talk) 03:54, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Article appears reasonable and sourced, no applicable criteria given for deletion. Artw (talk) 04:07, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per JFG. No reliable sources have claimed that Russia interfered.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 05:27, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable issue, and many reliable sources, including US Senate report, multiple published academic articles, numerous journalist sources.  Wik idea  07:53, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete or *Merge There really is not all that much here, sure its sourced, but there is just not that much of a story. Really this is too minor to be anything more then a side show to the Brexit page. And it is not a US senate report, it was by one parties members.Slatersteven (talk) 13:46, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * delete sourced speculation and suspicions are still just speculation and suspicion. There are a lot of people here who need to learn that, in the short term, news reports are not reliable sources by our standards. Mangoe (talk) 15:00, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge. This stuff might be worth a mention at Foreign electoral intervention, but there’s not enough yet for a full standalone article.&#32;Anythingyouwant (talk) 15:11, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep This story is only beginning to come to light and should be given more time to see what develops. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 15:44, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep, but rename to Russian interference in Brexit or Brexit and Russia. Informally speaking, there is no doubts that Russian interference to influence Brexit had indeed occur, and the only question is about the scale of the operations. But regardless, the subject/controversy was widely covered in reliable sources (see here and Google search). It was also covered in Russian language sources. Just a few examples: comments by informed people immediately after the Brexit, a denial by Putin (making an official comment shows significance/notability of the subject), and the recent UK inquiry. My very best wishes (talk) 16:21, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   22:02, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - Agree with the nomination that this is speculation. This is alleged Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. Based at the moment on rumours, rather than any clear evidence yet. The US Senate minority report suggested that Russia may have influenced the Brexit campaign. There are many things which may have happened during the Brexit campaign, but we don't know them yet. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 02:43, 23 January 2018 (UTC)


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