Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uplift (Ireland)


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  12:11, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Uplift (Ireland)

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Previously PRODed, but dePRODed by creator. Not notable. Barring the website of the subject, singular source with a two-sentence mention, which does not confer notability per WP:ORGDEPTH, and none of the sources discussed on talk page have shown any level of sigcov. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 10:12, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 10:12, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations and Politics. Shellwood (talk) 11:14, 7 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Comment. While my own WP:BEFORE is ongoing, my initial searches are not looking promising. While the subject is mentioned in several news articles (,,etc), none would seem to meet WP:ORGDEPTH. I say this because I'm having a hard time finding even ONE reliable independent source to confirm what the subject actually IS. Is it a website that publishes petitions (outwardly that's what I see)? A membership org (if so how)? WP:ORGDEPTH requires "Deep or significant coverage [that] provides an overview, description [..] or evaluation of the [..] organization. Such coverage [..] makes it possible to write more than a very brief, incomplete stub". That I cannot find even ONE news or academic source providing an overview/description/evaluation of the subject is telling. From own evaluation I can see that the subject is registered as a limited company with the CRO. Is *not* registered as a charity. Is *not* Register of Third Parties with SIPO and is not in the list of third parties who submitted returns. Is however seemingly included in the SIPO Register of Lobbying. Beyond that, and in all honesty, the subject seems to be a website (funded by donations) that allows pretty much anyone to publish a petition. Of which there are thousands and thousands. Sometimes covering relatively local/niche topics. Which are then converted into an email or a tweet or similar approach to a local or national politician. That I had to go "hunting" for this information suggests to me that WP:CORPDEPTH is not met. Certainly, in my own WP:BEFORE, I haven't found anything substantive to expand the current small stub into a slightly less-small stub. (Note, the "350,000 members" number seems to be "people who have created a profile/voted on the website". And, while website users/visitors isn't a factor in WP:WEBCRIT, this "claim to fame" seems weak at best...) Guliolopez (talk) 11:43, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as initial PRODder. Sungodtemple (talk) 14:29, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:NORG. From what I have found so far, the mentions appear to be mostly passing and some are just links to petitions hosted on the uplift site. It's possible that this is a case of WP:TOOSOON and later on they will receive enough coverage, but the subject currently does not merit an article. Best, GPL93 (talk) 14:58, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Following my earlier comment above, I have since completed my own WP:BEFORE. Or, at least, have spent as much time on it as I'm going to. In short, and while I acknowledge that the relatively generic name of the subject (not exactly lending itself to a clear and unambiguous results in news/book/academic sources) means that I may be overlooking something, I am not finding significant coverage of the subject. No national news articles (in the Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Irish Independent or RTÉ) in which the subject is the primary topic. No independent sources at all that provide "significant coverage [that] provides an overview, description [..] or evaluation of the [..] organization". All I'm left with therefore is my own interpretation of fragmented coverage and passing mentions. That the subject is a company that coordinates a web-based community, to run surveys and petitions, and surface the outputs to politicians. While there's nothing wrong with that, there is nothing to indicate that the company meets WP:NORG, that the website meets WP:NWEB or that the activities meet WP:SIGCOV. Guliolopez (talk) 15:48, 7 September 2022 (UTC)


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