Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miscarriages of Justice: University of Limerick

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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 06:53, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Miscarriages of Justice: University of Limerick

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This appears to be pure advocacy--advocacy that I have considerable sympathy for, but has no place in an encyclopedia DGG ( talk ) 01:10, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOTPROMO. ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 01:33, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Nonencyclopedic opinion piece. sixtynine ^{• speak up •} 01:44, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. Lemongirl942 (talk) 05:58, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Agree that the article in its current form is advocacy. If this would have received significant coverage in the media, I wouldn't have been opposed to an encyclopaedic summary. But there is hardly any independent coverage and hence, it doesn't merit an inclusion. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 06:05, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: it seems to me that the problem is that the page isn't really clear what the purpose of this project would be. If it was to correct legal miscarriage of justice, then that kind of project might well be notable enough to have a WP page as per California Innocence Project and other examples. But as it is written, the project just seems to be a vaguely academic information gathering project by undergraduates. The problem is that if it is the former, it is WP:TOOSOON as I can't see any coverage of convictions overturned etc. If the latter, it is hard to see this as much more than an essay. So on that basis, I'm going to !vote delete. JMWt (talk) 09:18, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per JMWt. I am not sure whether I understood the article clearly, as it appears to be about a website that promotes awareness of past miscarriages of justice, in some cases where the defendant was released years before the website was founded, as opposed to an organization which advocates on behalf of people who are currently serving time due to wrongful convictions. The only source provided in the article is a broken link; the article says, "In 2012 the original group came up with the idea of a website that can be found while browsing the University of Limerick's main website", but I can't find their website myself despite searching on the university's website. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:26, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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