Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Workers' Solidarity Alliance

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 was redirect‎ to Anarchism in the United States. Star Mississippi 16:04, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Workers' Solidarity Alliance[edit]

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This article has been limping along for years as a perma-stub, and in that time only one citation to a reliable source that is independent from the subject has been found: Kinna 2012, p. 357 (this source provides only a single sentence of information about it, in a long list of other organisations). Looking through Google Scholar,[1] I haven't been able to find any significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. Most of the sources found are from members of the organisation (i.e. Tom Wetzel), or authors connected directly to the organisation (i.e. Workers' Solidarity Movement) or are false positives (i.e. Emma Goldman). Others only provide passing mentions to the WSA, in longer lists of other organisations (i.e. Gustavo Rodriguez, Robert Hlatky).

As I haven't been able to find evidence that this organisation meets our general notability guidelines, and as I can't see any obvious redirect targets (although IWA-AIT, Anarchism in the United States or anarcho-syndicalism are potential options), I'm proposing this article be deleted. Grnrchst (talk) 15:38, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Politics, and United States of America. Grnrchst (talk) 15:38, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep -- Sufficient sourcing to meet GNG. To say that Hlatky only provides a mention in a list is not the case. There are a few paragraphs on both WSA and its Edmonton Chapter. This along with Kinna seem to me to be sufficient. Central and Adams (talk) 17:07, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~: Fails NORG. The Hlatky piece is based on interviews and briefly describes that the Edmonton org existed, that it had a listserv, and that it failed, and it notes the basic facts of the existence of the main org. Kinna is a very similar brief description of the organization. voorts (talk/contributions) 02:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Anarchism in the United States per Czar. I do not think a merge is appropriate as summarizing this organization would be outside of the scope of that article. voorts (talk/contributions) 23:49, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Anarchism in the United States as an alternative to deletion. In 15+ mins of searching books and scholarly sources, I did not find significant coverage in enough depth to write a dedicated article. There is little independent sourcing about the org apart from that it existed, which means prime candidacy for a redirect. I did find a number of mentions[2][3] so we should cover it similarly, i.e., in a one-sentence list among other anarchist organizations in North America (incl. Canada but I think a US-article mention is sufficient). czar 09:45, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep / Mege deletion is completely unnecessary.--User:Namiba 13:13, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Hey man im josh (talk) 15:45, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for me, but I wouldn't be mad about a redirect as suggested by other voters. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 02:36, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:50, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Anarchism in the United States looks like a good solution. The target article already mentions the Workers' Solidarity Alliance a couple of times. I did pause and wonder whether there might be other organizations with the same name in other countries (and perhaps there are), but a spot check of the article mentions in Wikipedia Library like this 2014 Fifth Estate article suggests it is indeed more of a US thing. (Side note: Politico reports that they made a 2021 Pentagon list of "extremist infiltrators".) Would recommend redirecting both "Workers' Solidarity Alliance" (with the apostrophe) and "Workers Solidarity Alliance" (without the apostrophe) to Anarchism in the United States. Cielquiparle (talk) 03:45, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Anarchism in the United States per comments of Czar and Cielquiparle. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 21:11, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.