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Scotland

Scotland's Garden and Landscape Heritage

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The 2 sources provided are its own website. Only 1 google news hit. Fails WP:ORG. LibStar (talk) 00:59, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Environment, and Scotland. LibStar (talk) 00:59, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as not enough independent media coverage and fails WP:ORG--Killviconiborki (talk) 08:03, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Callum Osmand

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Unable to find WP:SIGCOV, and fails WP:GNG. I only found passing mentions about him. ChurnXeke (talk) 22:47, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Football, Scotland, and Wales. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:19, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – Article already has SIGCOV. More would be ideal, but there is enough to justify keeping as is. – Ike Lek (talk) 01:54, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – Looks enough for WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 02:50, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Fulham FC isn't independent, source 2 is a transfer rumour, source 3 routine transfer story with only two lines on Osmand, source 4 isn't independent, source 5 is a Q+A interview with no sigcov of him, source 6 is a blog and source 7 is better but not enough for sigcov. Notability isn't inherited from the clubs he has signed for. Also assuming there will be future sources about him is WP:CRYSTAL. Dougal18 (talk) 10:15, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Giant Snowman 18:37, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Drafify - not currently notable, but might be in future. Current source is absolutely not SIGCOV, it's ROUTINE/transfer stuff. Giant Snowman 18:42, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per sources below which show notability. Giant Snowman 18:29, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - @GiantSnowman:, I found [1], [2], [3], and [4] among more sources. Article needs improvement, not deletion. Thanks, Das osmnezz (talk) 06:56, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sources 1 and 4 fine, the others meh. It's enough though. Giant Snowman 18:28, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mircea Popescu

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Fails WP:GNG. No WP:SIGCOV of this individual that I could find. The article relies on a single reference. GhostOfNoMan 06:40, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. What a surprise, another Topcipher/SwisterTwister/Trampton substub. These are bad and in need of cleanup but almost always based on underlying notability, and WP:DINC. In this case, IEEE Fellow is an automatic pass of WP:PROF#C3, the exact case that is used as an example of what passes in WP:PROF. The record is confused by the 2021 death of someone with the same name, supposedly a billionaire bitcoin holder, but I have not yet been able to determine whether there is any connection other than in name and I have no opinion whether the bitcoin Popescu is also notable. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:23, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Engineering, Finland, Hungary, Romania, England, and Scotland. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:59, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep; As others have said, he meets WP:PROF#C3 (by being an IEEE fellow which is an autopass) and so is notable. If you don’t trust the source in the article (a facebook post), this is the table of fellows of the IEEE. Select “P” and go to page 30, he is at the top of the page. Or go to the year of 2015 and select “P”, he is mentioned there. Emily.Owl ( she/her • talk) 11:45, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, adding another vote. A very obvious pass based upon the IEEE Fellow election. Ldm1954 (talk) 13:54, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as he passes WP:PROF#C3 due to his IEEE fellowship. --hroest 19:41, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Harry McNaughton

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Does not meet WP:GNG. Article already deleted by PROD in 2007 (subsequently recreated in 2012). C 679 09:27, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Per total lack of WP:V. Svartner (talk) 16:51, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Liverpool F.C. players (1–24 appearances) as possible search term. GiantSnowman 17:56, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete – I wouldn't redirect as a Google search just leads you to the actor. A redirect is likely to just create confusion for those searching for the actor. Unless you think there is any chance of sources being found, let's just delete this one.
Ike Lek (talk) 23:13, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, I think a redirect would do more harm than good in this case. Svartner (talk) 08:11, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland

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I searched and https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n05/colin-kidd/new-unions-for-old might be a source but that is not enough to show notability Chidgk1 (talk) 17:35, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Scotland. Chidgk1 (talk) 17:35, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete: The Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland was a short-lived faction within the SNP in the early 1980s with no lasting impact or independent coverage. --THE ONE PEOPLE (talk) 19:32, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to 79 Group. There is certainly plenty independent coverage- I've added multiple references including coverage in a couple of front page stories in the national press at the time. There are also various historical appraisals that describe the Campaign as being a response to the 79 Group and that although the Campaign was only active over a short period led to the significant changes of the proscription of internal groups and to gradualism instead of fundamentalism in the SNP. Drchriswilliams (talk) 11:45, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting to solicit more views about a possible redirect or merge.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen× ☎ 15:29, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Non-notable campaign that is not significant enough for a standalone article. What is there should be easily covered within the 79 Group and SNP articles. Coldupnorth (talk) 15:14, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep article has been improved. Moondragon21 (talk) 11:28, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen× ☎ 21:43, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Scottish National Party the area around the bluetext that link to Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland can just be expanded. There is not a length concern for the overall article and even if there was this is probably not the right split — Preceding unsigned comment added by Czarking0 (talk • contribs) 23:57, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: We haven't even got consensus for a possible redirect target yet.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 02:39, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to SNP Metallurgist (talk) 23:52, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to 79 Group per Drchriswilliams.--Staberinde (talk) 19:21, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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