Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kingdom of North Sudan
Came via Africa links, so unaffiliated editor. As per my typical response to contemporary AfD's, I go to LexisNexis and look at everything on the topic. Lexis has 41 hits (one is a false positive, so only really 40). Of those 25 are from July 2014 and all are as described by Bbb23 (without sufficient coverage). Coverage since then is either referring to the one event, which fails to pass  or it has substance related to other issues: the Terra nullius concept in international law, the Disney green lit project, other micronations like Liberland with the kingdom only mentioned in passing, or Bir Tawil. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/welcome-to-the-land-that-no-country-wants-bir-tawil This (cool) guardian article is the most substantive hit and mostly just uses the flag planting as a hook to set up a larger conversation about the area (and by the way completely debunks any notability claim of the kingdom in doing so--"Heaton was not the first well-intentioned, starry-eyed eccentric to travel all the way to Bir Tawil and plant a flag. Someone else got there first, and that someone was me"). Hence: Coverage is dependent on a single event, is not substantive, and any actual substance in the articles is not about the Kingdom but other issues. The coverage on the Bir Tawil page is sufficient and this article should be deleted. Not notable. If Disney makes a film, then the film should have a page but even that wouldn't make this notable. I think this quote from a Washington Post article in 2014 makes the hoax clear: "Experts say that simply planting a flag in the sand isn't how countries are born these days, even if land sits apparently unclaimed. Heaton is not a state, nor is he acting on behalf of any nation. And he is not occupying the land, instead living more than 6,600 miles away in southwestern Virginia
— User:AbstractIllusions, 11:02, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:1E (Wikipedia:Notability)