Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Greek Defence


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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 09:03, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

The Greek Defence

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Seems to fail WP:NOT; there's no evidence that this has any lasting coverage, or, indeed, even notability at the time. Ironholds (talk) 01:43, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I note that one of the "sources" provided was a blog written by the author of this article. Sigh. Ironholds (talk) 01:44, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete A non-notable (though clever) phrase used in a political exchange about a year and a half ago by Ed Miliband. A commentator or two repeated it, but it received no significant coverage, and by now, has been pretty much forgotten.  Cullen 328   Let's discuss it  02:04, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete The article's claim to notability rests on the last sentence about the phrase becoming widely used. Unfortunately there isn't a shred of evidence that this is the case. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 07:58, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:23, 23 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. For a term to have a stand-alone article in Wikipedia, there needs to be widespread evidence of common use. As I found zero hits on GNews for articles containing both "Greek Defence" and "Liberal Democrats" I don't believe this is the case. Suspect the real motive of teh article ws to get this term in common use because Wikpedia says it is. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 07:56, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
 * NOTE The article has a link to this discussion, however, many people are not going to realize that as it appears as a redlink. I have never seen anything like that __meco (talk) 09:19, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete As noted above, coverage in reliable sources came to abrupt end after the Miliband stuff left the news cycle, making it one event stuff. Nwlaw63 (talk) 20:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
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