Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberty League (UK)

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The result was merge to Adam Smith Institute. I would look forward to editors like E.M.Gregory taking the lead in merging the contents. Thanks. (non-admin closure) Lourdes 00:51, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Liberty League (UK)

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This organisation doesn't appear to be a significantly notable organisation for Wikipedia. Although from my research I can see that it is real organisation that has organised events in the past, it doesn't appear to me to be that notable. There are no internal links to other Wikipedia articles (although I realise that only partly points to lack of notability. Seaweed (talk) 14:30, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:48, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:48, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Not enough RS to pass GNG.Zigzig20s (talk) 09:07, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Doesn't appear to pass GNG. Egsan Bacon (talk) 15:06, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• AfD is not about what is in the article is adequately sourced, it is about whether the subject itself is notable.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:48, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep I did a little sourcing; it was a bit of thing in the early 2010s. Appears to have been a something of a young billionaire's political club. I am not certain that it still exists.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:26, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Going to mention this AfD on the Adam Smith Institute. I can see that the Institute is now running some of the conferences that the Liberty League used to run, perhaps it is a proper target for a redirect.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:35, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Note also that it is somewhat difficult to search because "Liberty League" + political keywords brings up the old American Liberty League, and just about any surname used in a search brings the Liberty League .E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:35, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Note also, that one of the 3 young founders of this apparently short-lived movement, Anton Howes, is making quite a splash with a PhD dissertation [1], probably already under contract with a publisher.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:26, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:45, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Note to closing editor suggest relist; I have just added this to politics-related AfD list, hoping to draw attention of editors with some expertise in this sort of article.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:48, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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• Or a merge to Adam Smith Institute.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:09, 25 May 2017

• So, as near as I can make out from news coverage and from sources like this [2] write-up by one of founders, this "Liberty League" was a short lived political movement formed by three students in Britain. It's most successful effort appears to have been an annual student conference to train/promote conservative ideology among students called the "Freedom Forum." Founder Anton Howes [3] was (or is?) a fellow of the Adam Smith Institute. And search on "Liberty league" "Adam Smith Institute" [4] shows that the two groups intersect ideologically. And that the "Freedom Forum" conference was run by the Adam Smith Institute after Liberty League seemingly ceased to be an active organization. "The ASI’s Forum, held on a Saturday in early December, is a one-day successor to the Liberty League Freedom Forum conferences, and like them, attracts over 300 guests, mostly students or people in their early 20s. It is very high powered, covering both esoteric and specialist topics as well, with speaks who are prominent, knowledgeable, and highly entertaining. It gives students a chance to network with each other and with the speakers." [5]. (search on "Liberty League" + "adam smith institute" + "freedom forum") [6].

• I leave to others to judge whether this is enough justify redirecting to Adam Smith Institute and adding a sentence along the lines of , The Liberty League. a UK Student organization in the early 2010s founded by James Lawson, William Hamilton, and Anton Howes to support classical liberalism; it's annual Freedom Forum conference was later run by the Institute.E.M.Gregory (talk) 09:45, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• I would support this solution.Seaweed (talk) 13:04, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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