Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Political uprisings of 1968

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The result was merge to Protests of 1968. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 09:12, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Political uprisings of 1968

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Pigeon-holing a vast number of completely unrelated events based on the year they happened in? Nuh-uh. The individual events are notable - the events collectively are not. Ironholds (talk) 18:23, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

• Keep Merge and Redirect per Phil Bridger. This is similar to Revolutions of 1848. The cited book by Kurlansky and this and this among others show that these political events of 1968 are considered collectively notable by scholars.John Z (talk) 20:17, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
• Keep. Clearly these events are considered collectively notable, per the sources identified by John Z. The article definitely needs some attention though. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:32, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Redirect per below, obviously! --Mkativerata (talk) 21:43, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
• Keep per John Z. This collection is certainly notable; they are causally related, not merely by synchronicity. It needs to rescued. Bearian (talk) 05:46, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
• Weak delete There is no comparison of this page to the well-written article about the Revolutions of 1848. This is nothing more than a list of Wikipedia articles about different events that happened in 1968, without the word "list". If someone wants to improve this article with things like references to published sources, that will be great, but this is Honestly, the assassination of RFK was a "political uprising"? By what, one guy? And the Tet Offensive? Only in the same sense that Pearl Harbor was a "political uprising". A weak delete, since there are pledges that people will do rescues and give the page some attention, and there have been books and magazines about this pivotal year (and when you find them, please share it with the rest of the class). Start [here] and then look for more sources. Mandsford (talk) 14:16, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
• Redirect to Protests of 1968, obviously. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:29, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
• Redirect to Protests of 1968. We already have an article on this topic. Fences&Windows 22:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
• Redirect per others. It's a legitimate search term. I'm glad someone located the article where this has been done already. Mandsford (talk) 00:50, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
• Redirect to the protests article, but only because it's already in better shape — there's nothing wrong per se with an article on a series of events like this. Otherwise, we'd need to delete both 1848 and the Revolutions of 1989 article. Given the sources we have, this is plainly a notable topic. Nyttend (talk) 02:02, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
• Redirect/ merge per above. FeydHuxtable (talk) 21:04, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
• Merge to Protests of 1968, that a better name for it. Some information I see here, isn't over there yet.

May 1968 in France : when the events occurred in France, saw the largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an advanced industrial country,[1] the first wildcat general strike in history,[1] and a series of student occupation protests.

Dream Focus 01:25, 19 December 2009 (UTC) Merge as per infor above. Lets not lose the content on here though. Merge not redirrect. Kurlansky's '1968 the year that rocked the world' is a good source of information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Confusedmiked (talk • contribs) 10:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

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