March 2016

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Proposed deletion of Liberal Democrats (Zimbabwe)

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The article Liberal Democrats (Zimbabwe) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence of satisfying Wikipedia's notability guidelines. (Of the references, one is the party's own web site, one barely mentions the party in passing, and the others don't mention it at all.)

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Possible conflict of interest

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Nomination of Liberal Democrats (Zimbabwe) for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Liberal Democrats logo.jpg

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Sibbs.jpg

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Speedy deletion nomination of Liberal Democrats (Zimbabwe)

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A tag has been placed on Liberal Democrats (Zimbabwe), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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Hello Vsibbs. I had to delete the article again, as it was only just deleted before after this discussion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberal Democrats (Zimbabwe). My advice now is: 1) declare any connection you have to this party, see WP:COI; 2) edit some other articles about things you may be interested in but aren't yourself connected to, to get a feel for how Wikipedia works; 3) add more reliable sources to the version in your sandbox; 4) once the article appears to meet our guidelines including notability, go to deletion review to make the case for allowing this article to be recreated. Fences&Windows 22:23, 22 May 2016 (UTC)Reply