Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Worker Student 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 no consensus. This does not bar the continuance of a discussion on redirecting or merger via the usual channels such as the talk page. Stifle (talk) 10:33, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Page has been tagged in 2008 for not having any sources. It still has no sources. No reliable secondary sources can be found making the subject non-notable. Xcuref1endx (talk) 08:09, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:15, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:16, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:16, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and improve with this source and many others. A simple search of Google Books reveals many sources.--TM 17:03, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment The first link you put up is a link to a book that mentions the organization once. That it resulted from a split of another micro political organization. It doesn't mention anything beyond that. The other one you put up is a secondary source, but hardly seems to be reliable. It offers no citations and is written by a relatively unknown journalist. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 19:17, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge or Redirect to Students for a Democratic Society. Pax 09:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If there is a Merge-and-Redirect, it strikes me that it should be to Progressive Labor Party rather than to SDS. The fact that this is a question indicates to me that this article has a rationale for existing independent of either of those two articles, even if it was a "front group" of the PLP in the SDS... Carrite (talk) 15:48, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's the strand of hair split three ways (a common tactic of these incestuously intertwined front-groups is to form multiple clones, each handling a nominally different aspect of agitprop, with all the head-honchos in different upper-echelon bureaucratic capacities in each). The fact that one of the SDS strands managed to garner notability is not argument for automatic inclusion of another. They're all the same octopus. Pax 08:09, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - This is almost certainly a GNG pass, the SDS and the PLP being big fish in the world of 1960s radicalism. Carrite (talk) 09:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment SDS and PLP have their own articles already. I don't see how the easy GNG pass applies to this topic. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 23:24, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge I think maybe a merge to Students for a Democratic Society would be most appropriate. -Xcuref1endx (talk) 04:15, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep or Merge to Students for a Democratic Society - It's a tough one. I think there's enough to get by the GNG (several hits in academic databases and ghits connected to 60s politics, new left, youth politics, labor, marxism, etc.). The question, however, is whether there is enough material on the WSA beyond talk of SDS to merit a stand-alone article. I'm not sure. --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 05:48, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Although notability is somewhat limited it does appear that the organization is notable, thanks to their reliable sources. Aerospeed (Talk) 14:44, 2 February 2015 (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.