Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Catalan Republic (2017) (3rd nomination)
There was never a republic in reality nor even in pretence.  The regional president made an ambiguous declaration but he never pretended that he created a new state, even if he had had authority to do so.  He went so far as to declare his declaration suspended at once, and then accepted that it was a nullity when the Spanish Supreme Court decreed that.  There was no state that took control even for a moment, and even its own government did not claim it did. The 'Catalan Republic' is pure fiction or aspiration. The article contains nothing which is not covered by the article on Puidgemont's declaration: it seems to have been written just to propagate a fiction. |Wikipedia is not a propaganda soapbox
— User:Hogweard, 08:35, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:SOAP (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)