User talk:DMG-Gremlin

Nomination of Mahmoud Abbas' position on terror for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mahmoud Abbas' position on terror is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Mahmoud Abbas' position on terror until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sammy1339 (talk) 21:28, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

About the deletion discussion
I hope you won't take it as a criticism of your work - I think it's actually a fair and reasonable article and your selection of topics makes sense. The two problems with it are first of all that it is a very contentious topic that for the sake of fairness belongs in the main article where everyone can see and debate it; secondly, there's no source that explicitly discusses Abbas's views in general or the controversy over them. According to WP:SYNTH, editors are not allowed to collect disparate pieces of information in order to express something that hasn't been said elsewhere. However I think that some of what you wrote is valuable and could be incorporated into the Mahmoud Abbas page. --Sammy1339 (talk) 00:52, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Sammy1339 - I think that you wrote the above text to me privately (your text starting "I hope you won't take it..."), i.e., not on the main "Articles for deletion" page. Would you mind posting it on the main "Articles for deletion" page, so that others who may be considering the issue can see it as well? I won't do this myself in case you wanted it to remain private. User:DMG-Gremlin
 * Sure, you can quote me if you like, but I don't think it will affect the deletion discussion. --Sammy1339 (talk) 22:12, 30 October 2014 (UTC)