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No, it wasn't. I nominated it because I happened to stumble upon the article whilst browsing and didn't think it deserved to be on wikipedia. I haven't contributed to wikipedia for several months previous to this and I have no involvement in any other arguments you might have had during this time.
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to publish all the written evidence it receives. If I were to submit evidence to such a committee myself, I would end up being quoted by the same website; that wouldn't make me notable enough for a wikipedia article! Indeed, if you look, you will find that the vast majority of the 96-odd published
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This is a topic of very significant consequence. People are advocating the replacement of the
British monarchy with a republic, talk that would have gotten them spedily into prison in the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth century. The issue of republice versus monarchy is one that
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Yes, I understand your point about the difficulty in accurately searching for something called 'republic', however, even if it gets an occasional media mention, I'm not convinced that it's well-known enough to satisfy notability. Also, having notable supporters doesn't necessarily make a group
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It is rather remarkable that people are hurling charges such as sock puppet. This organization is a bona fide organization with dozens of supporters among political and cultural figures in
British society. The BBC had given reference to it in a series of articles in 2003.
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Well, I only put one mention there. The problem is that the terms which might be searched for throw up a lot of irrelevant hits. Google news only searches the last few weeks. I can do a more lengthy search if you want. The group was founded in 1983 by
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on the basis of the actual article. Who this group's supporters may be, how many they are, how likely its political goals seem, all of this is not relevant. If it is commented on by major national news sources it is N. WP is not a judge of political merit.
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that would suggest you have not read the references, seeing as they contain reports from reliable sources of meetings, demonstrations, PQs and so on.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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