Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Libertarian Communism (journal)

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The result was redirect to Socialist Party of Great Britain#Breakaway groups. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 11:54, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Libertarian Communism (journal)[edit]

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This newspaper or journal may well have existed. The question to be answered here, in my opinion, is whether "Libertarian Communism (journal)" or however it styled, meets the notability guidelines for publications. This is, of course, something asserted to published from 1972 to 1976, so there may well be no online archive of its publication history independent of the libcom.org reference already cited. A WP:BEFORE search done, and there appears to be no ISSV or OCLC number for "Libertarian Communism (journal)". That said, given this article's longevity on en.wp, it would appear to me that a deletion discussion would be preferable to an outright WP:A7 deletion. User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:00, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academic journals, Libertarianism, and Politics. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:16, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~. The fact that this was published in the 70s may mean that there are some print sources out there somewhere. However, unless such sources can be unearthed, we have no reason to assume that they exist and have no sources to build an article upon. The rather general title doesn't make it easier to search for sources either. --Randykitty (talk) 10:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

CHange to Redirect per Asilvering below. --Randykitty (talk) 16:11, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Appears to fail WP:NJOURNAL and lacks significant coverage in reliable secondary sources. A journal produced by a relatively minor political party for just four years (which then, according to p.161 of this book, seems to have been discontinued not long after the splinter group which established the journal merged with another party) is unlikely to be notable, and this is reflected in the lack of reliable sources. WJ94 (talk) 10:58, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Socialist Party of Great Britain. I'll put a line in about it there. I think it's reasonable to keep this as a redirect because someone searching for "libertarian communism" and hoping to get this journal won't be helped at all by the article Libertarian communism. But there are almost no sources in this article, and if no one comes up with them during this AfD it shouldn't stick around. -- asilvering (talk) 15:22, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, no need for me to edit Socialist Party of Great Britain - it's already there. Ready for a redirect, nothing further to merge. -- asilvering (talk) 15:25, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Socialist Party of Great Britain#Breakaway groups per asilvering. I agree with the nom. and others that the subject fails WP:NJOURNAL and WP:GNG, so a standalone page is not warranted. I would specifically target the redirect to the "Breakaway groups" section, where the journal is mentioned, per WP:RSECT. Sal2100 (talk) 16:05, 24 February 2023 (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.