Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States Pacifist Party


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The result was redirect to Bradford Lyttle. Black Kite (talk) 09:23, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

United States Pacifist Party

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Article only links to self-published sources. It does not appear to have any elected officers or any non-trivial coverage in reliable sources. Toa Nidhiki05 18:05, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep: I don't think this should be delete, just improved upon LoneWolf1992 (talk) 20:17, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete/redirect/partial merge to Bradford Lyttle. Can't find evidence this has received substantive coverage or that it's an actual party, it's just one dude's amateurish attempt at activism. Reywas92Talk 22:18, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I think redirecting it to Bradford Lyttle would work. (talk) 2:07, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Bradford Lyttle. His lyttle party never amounted to anything.  A Proquest news archive search turns up a single article about a lecture he gave on pacifism, which includes the sentence, " In 1983, he founded the United States Pacifist Party, a small political group marked by an anti-military and anti-aggression platform,"  a handful of letters-to-the-editor, and a couple of candidate event listings. total 10 hits in the search over 4 decades, a testimony to this Party's lack of notability. A gBooks search is similar.  typical hit: Rebels and Renegades: A Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the United States : "A sampling of third parties active today would seem to confirm that lesson: there are the Common Good Party, the New Liberty Party, the Working Families Party, the Freedom Socialist Party, the United States Pacifist Party—all largely ignored ..."E.M.Gregory (talk) 08:15, 12 April 2019 (UTC)


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