Talk:Socialist Workers Party (Ireland)

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Contents 1 Election box metadata 2 How Did Ireland Get here 3 Deletion of material 4 Referances 5 Membership 6 Dublin riots

[edit] Election box metadata

This article contains some sub-pages that hold metadata about this subject. This metadata is used by the Election box templates to display the color of the party and its name in Election candidate and results tables.

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• Template:Socialist Workers Party (Ireland)/meta/color Content:    
• Template:Socialist Workers Party (Ireland)/meta/shortname Content: Socialist Workers

[edit] How Did Ireland Get here

This heading appears in the middle of the article and doesn't appear to make any sense or have any relevance. Does anyone know what this is supposed to refer to? Looks like creative editing to me. Ben Bulben 18:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of material

Everything in the entry under the heading POLITICS is from the SWP itself. I'm deleting it all as in no sense is it NPOV. I should point out that I agree with almost every word of the statement. But policy is policy.

[edit] Referances

The additional information by annon user 219.89.83.173 looks good and is probally all true however it would be could if they could provide referances so we could cheak it out.--JK the unwise 11:04, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Membership

I don't have a clue how many members they have but I thought i'd just note down that User: 219.89.83.173 claimed that they have 500 members and that User: 213.202.177.11 changed this to 200 members. If either could offer some evidence of mebership numbers that would be grand.--JK the unwise 15:47, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

We'll never be able to get an accurate figure as groups don't publish them. The best we can do is try and find a quote from somewhere. Secretlondon 15:52, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

I changed the number to 200 as part of a short trawl through the article correcting details and toning down some of the more obvious bias. As it stood the article reflected what the SWP would say about itself rather than a NPOV. On the specifics of membership figures this is a question of perspective. A couple of years ago the SWP was telling its members that it had 500 members, although I don't think it currently claims that even internally. Other commentators familiar with the SWP have put the number as low as 100 (I can dig up links to those kind of estimates if you like). My estimate of 200 was based on personal observations, backed up by a quick count of its branches. To avoid an edit war I will edit it again so as to include both figures and a brief explanation.

[edit] Dublin riots

From the article: Following riots in Dublin on 25 February 2006 by republicans protesting at a planned 'Love Ulster' parade, the SWP issued a press release in which it expressed its full support for the actions of the rioters.

Is this true? Does anyone have the text of the press release? The party quoted immediately after the above sounds familiar, but it doesn't amount to an expression of "full support for the actions of the rioters". --Ryano 09:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)