Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northern Somali Unionist Movement

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The result was delete. Tone 18:06, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Northern Somali Unionist Movement

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This article is mainly based on a singular source of original research. Additionally, a google search of "Northern Somali Unionist Movement" only returns 84 results. Therefore, it is unlikely that it meets notability guidelines. Jacob300 (talk) 11:41, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Jacob300 (talk) 11:41, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Jacob300 (talk) 11:41, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Somalia-related deletion discussions. Jacob300 (talk) 11:41, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I'm not seeing SIGCOV in multiple RS to meet WP:GNG. Mztourist (talk) 15:43, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - seems sufficiently notably, considering this was a decade ago, "Military forces from Ethiopia and the self-declared Republic of Somaliland (which maintains a separate regional governing authority) engaged in armed conflict with the Northern Somali Unionist Movement in July 2010" ([1]) "Among the more organized diaspora groups involved was the Northern Somali Unionist Movement, (NSUM). " ( https://riftvalley.net/sites/default/files/publication-documents/Between%20Somaliland%20and%20Puntland%20by%20Markus%20Hoehne%20-%20RVI%20Contested%20Borderlands%20%282015%29.pdf ), "While suspicion has fallen on al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist group is far from the only suspect in the bombing. Besides the radical Islamists, there is also the Northern Somali Unionist Movement (NSUM), which opposes the secession of Somaliland and its control of the SSC region" ( https://jamestown.org/brief/briefs-176/ ), "Ethiopian police clashed with members of the Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn (SSC) militia, the armed wing of the Northern Somalia Unionist Movement (NSUM), in the town of Buhoodle on May 22, 2010, resulting in the deaths of four Ethiopian policemen and at least ten Somalis." ( https://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/sub-saharan-africa-region/somaliasomaliland-1960-present/ ), "In 2010, NSUM militants were involved in clashes between themselves and Somaliland forces near Widhwidh, in the Cayn region of Somalia." (https://allafrica.com/stories/201408290554.html) --Soman (talk) 17:58, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Soman, WP:GNG indicates that a topic is seen as notable if it received significant coverage addressing the topic directly and in detail, none of the links above go further than naming this entity, guidelines specifically mention that "significant coverage is more than a trivial mention". --Kzl55 (talk) 10:13, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete With limited original scholarly sources and 2 out of the 3 reference links not existing, article does not meet WP:GNG. Ciiseciise007 (talk)
Delete - Both Google Books as well as Scholar return almost zero reliable sources on the topic [2] [3]. A handful of sources offer trivial mentions of this group but no detailed or significant coverage is available in reliable sources to address notability or warrant a stand alone article per WP:GNG. Additionally, the article is mainly authored by Middayexpress [4], a permanently blocked long term vandal of the Somali project [5]. --Kzl55 (talk) 10:13, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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