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188:. Schnews is a small, weekly local publication that has much more of the feeling of a newsletter; I'm loath to consider coverage from a local paper as such on its own to count as notability. The piece in The Independent is more substantial, and seems to be the most mainstream of the papers. As seems to be turning into the standard I like to apply, I'd be more comfortable with another mainstream source or two giving a full story (or a good chunk of a decent-length story) to it. 349:
The Sun (London); Apr 28, 2001, FATBOY SLIM has agreed to play a benefit gig for wacky new political group The Free Party. The DJ will be spinning tunes on May 6 at Brighton's Concorde 2 for party members. The Free Party recommends drinking "strong lager all night long" while its "foreign policy"
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The Sun (London); Apr 23, 2005; DJ Fatboy Slim is backing a group of joke politicians in the election. The Free Party vows to tax Chav's favourite Burberry and calls for poker to be taught in schools. It has two candidates in the star's home area of Brighton and
295:. I must say that I find the sources to be quite lacking. One is the party website (almost never an indicator of notability) and one is a single mention in a fairly local website. I don't think that's sufficient. 224: 250: 148:- although not electorally successful, they do seem to have received a reasonable amount of press attention at the time. I've just had a very quick look, and have found 123: 169: 90: 85: 94: 17: 205:
The sources do not rescue this article, in my opinion. They are a novelty party with no notability or notable electoral history
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Clearly sufficient sourcing to show notability; we are not supposed to judge political groups by the quality of their politics.
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Another of many parties I feel should be removed for non-notability or merged into a single article on such minor parties.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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The nomination talks of merger and does not seem to have considered the sources. Please see
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
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plus 2 small articles from The Sun. In their entirety "
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