Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike


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The result was   no consensus.  MBisanz  talk 05:08, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike

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Strikes happen all the time around the world, and most of them are news events without any lasting importance. It's unclear why this particular one is notable enough to warrant an encyclopedia article. B. Wolterding (talk) 17:12, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT. No source to establish lasting significance of this particular strike.--Boffob (talk) 17:15, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete This is a news article, not an encyclopedic article, agree WP:NOT seems relevant. Paste (talk) 17:18, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete. Per Paste and Boffob's comments. Top  Gear  Freak  17:46, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Work interruptions (strikes, layoffs, lockouts) are not inherently notable.   Mandsford (talk) 18:53, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not the news of four-and-a-half years ago. Stifle (talk) 19:56, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, "Wikipedia is not the news" and "Notability does not expire" apply to events whether they happened yesterday, five years ago, or 100 years ago. If it was notable then, it would be notable now; if it wasn't notable then, it wouldn't be notable now.  I'm not convinced that it was notable then or now. Mandsford (talk) 03:28, 28 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:13, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Nation-wide strikes are notable. Especially ones that go on almost two months, and involve critical segments of healthcare. There should be no shortage of news sources, though G News doesn't cover Scottish papers very well yet. It will probably be still referred to years later in the context of later negotiations; most public employee settlements are.DGG (talk) 23:56, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete strikes are fairly frequent, even national ones which last weeks. No evidence that this strike was particularly notable or significant in the long term. Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 10:15, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: No sources, no real evidence of notability. Chicken Wing (talk) 10:54, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Book coverage such as this (and the following six pages) establishes the long-term notability of the subject. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:52, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mgm|(talk) 12:24, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: I have relisted this debate so the latest book reference can be taken into consideration. - Mgm|(talk) 12:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Per Phil and DGG, there are plenty of RS's, as one would expect, including substantial coverage in several books. A weeks-long national strike will almost always have much more than enough coverage to be notable by wikipedia's guidelines. Searching on scottish strike "nursery nurses" gets 178 gnews hits, almost all of them good, and continuing after the strike. The same search gets some more gscholar hits.  This book in the 47 gbooks hits explains that "The choice of an image from the 2004 Scotland-wide nursery nurses strike for the front cover of this volume was no accident ...."John Z (talk) 13:15, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep based on the sources found by other editors. Edward321 (talk) 21:24, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


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