Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2015 Roubaix shootings


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The result was redirect to November 2015 Paris attacks.  MBisanz  talk 12:01, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

2015 Roubaix shootings

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Nobody was shot, nobody was injured. Aside from briefly being thought to be connected to the Paris terrorist attacks, this was a complete non-event. --Bongwarrior (talk) 17:36, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
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 * Merge into November 2015 Paris attacks or keep. This event attracted a tremendous amount of international coverage. Certainly sufficient coverage to merit a permanent spot on WP, perhaps as a paragraph in November 2015 Paris attacks page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:31, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete – WP:NOTNEWS. The article itself reads like a one paragraph news story, and the references are all in the twenty-four hour news cycle. Googled "roubaix hostage" and "roubaix shooting" and filtered out anything earlier than December 2015 to look for ongoing coverage and found nothing. Therefore fails WP:GNG. Disagree in the strongest terms with merging with the Paris attacks page, since references clearly say the two weren't related. Aspirex (talk) 06:11, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge into November 2015 Paris attacks. Coverage frames it as part of that story. (Also, perhaps not relevantly, the nominator's assertion that "nobody was shot" is noticeably wrong.) --Sammy1339 (talk) 17:40, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * None of the hostages were shot. --Bongwarrior (talk) 20:06, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Onel 5969  TT me 12:56, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - for now atleast. It received plenty of media attention. And we do not delete article based on article quality.BabbaQ (talk) 14:56, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 11:13, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. routine crime. Certainly not merge, because, as was said above, it wasn't connected.  DGG ( talk ) 07:03, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as the article explicitly mentions it was not connected and there are no solid convincing signs of its own article. SwisterTwister   talk  07:09, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Revisiting the impact of an interest in the November 2015 Paris attacks is so enormous, that I continue to think it useful to Redirect this incident to that article, because the fears and hair-trigger security response that followed those attacks and was reflected in the response to Roubaix are a part of the story of the Paris attacks.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:57, 3 February 2016 (UTC)


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