Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Republic of Talossa

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. As there is no evidence of notability that wasn't in the version that was redirected to Micronation, I am taking the old 2004 VfD into account, which showed a clear consensus to delete, and tips this discussion over the borderline into reinforcing the consensus for deletion. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 15:07, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Republic of Talossa

Following a VfD debate in 2004, preserved on Talk:Republic of Talossa, this was redirected to Micronation. Some weeks ago User:Libertariandeist began a new article on the same topic, but the old reasons why it is insufficiently notable for a separate article still hold for the new attempt IMO. I prodded the article citing WP:NFT, which was contested without comment by an anon. Later User:Stanley011 added a new prod with the reason

wikipedia is an encyclopoedia of names, places, concepts, and things that are NOTABLE, not a repository of non-notable organizations that involve 50 or fewer members masquerading as a serious enterprise

It being against WP:PROD procedure to re-prod an article I am taking it to AfD for consensus instead. Henning Makholm 19:44, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete: per nom and WP:NFT. Justin Eiler 20:14, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Well, first of all when the article was first written, there were no more than ten members. It has since grown to 36 citizens, and with friends of the republic and prospectives (who participate in the group but just don't vote) there are more than 50 "members". Libertariandeist 23:48, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep. This is the micronation with the best-known example of a micronational language. It is featured extensively in the Wired article "It's Good to Be King", and is covered in the book Conquering Consumerspace: Marketing Strategies for a Branded World. Wiwaxia 01:28, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Agree with Wiwaxia. However, I'd like a different setup for this article. Currently, Republic of Talossa has an article, and the IMO even more notable Kingdom of Talossa is a redirect to Micronation. I wonder if it wouldn't be an idea to have an article about the Kingdom and the Republic in one, under the title Talossa. —IJzeren Jan _{In mij legge alle fogultjes een ij} 06:50, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all micronations. This material belongs on the micronation's own website, not Wikipedia. Stifle 22:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per stifle and first nom ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 23:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete; what's next? A Wikipedia-based micronation? - Liberatore(T) 18:44, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. as utterly non-notable made-up stuff. After seeing a bunch of these sorts of articles, I tend to agree with Stifle's sentiment. Sandstein 09:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.