Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kharkiv People's Republic
or '''Merge''' - Holy s on both sides. The question of whether this is a legitimate republic, whether it's a legitimate ''anything'', whether it's nonsense or a publicity stunt, whether it gives them credibility or not, etc. -- none of that matters for the purposes of Wikipedia, which considers |notable that which has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources. The briefest of searches returned more than enough to render notability uncontroversial (well, ''should'' I suppose). The other question is whether it merits a stand-alone article vs. merging into the unrest article. To me this has received so much coverage on its own up to the present that a stand-alone article seems warranted. Unproven lasting effects don't automatically mean non-notable. If we start thinking about what the existence of a Wikipedia article ''means'' in the grand sociopolitical scheme of things, Wikipedia will quickly fall apart. ''Update: Changed from keep to weak keep or merge based on concentration of reporting. Though I do think it's too early to delete based on no lasting significance, merging for now is a reasonable compromise.'' --&mdash
— User:Rhododendrites, 00:20, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:AADD||WP:N (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)