Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ahvaz National Resistance


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Atlantic306 (talk) 18:45, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Ahvaz National Resistance

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Repetitive and equal to Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz Fatemi ♪ 18:28, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose Keep: Not at all equal. The ASMLA distanced itself from the 2018 Ahvaz military parade attack through its official webpage and this was relayed by WP:RS. Ahvaz National Resistance is likely a subgroup that was ejected from ASMLA in 2015 and went on to claim the 22 August 2018 terrorist attack. I was trying to get this clearer, but it's already in the article. This name was widely spread through the attack. The query currently gets 6.700 results in Google News. Wakari07 (talk) 18:36, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: According to a danish spokesman of ASMLA via Danish National Radio, the ANR is an umbrella organization, in which ASMLA is a part: Reference: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/talsperson-afviser-staa-bag-angreb-i-iran-vi-er-kun-aktive-politisk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.184.66.94 (talk) 18:42, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:43, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Terrorism-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:43, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:44, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * *Redirect to Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz. This is a content fork and gives undue weight to the topic by forking; hence giving impression of standalone notability of small faction within larger organization. It's just a 3-line stub, so nothing to merge.. –Ammarpad (talk) 18:49, 23 September 2018 (UTC). After the expansion I agree it's a distinct splinter group. 18:04, 30 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz. Mardetanha (talk) 07:32, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep it seems to be a separate splinter group and deserves its own article. Carptrash (talk) 16:20, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Though I understand that the recent attack constitutes a large portion of this article, which means there are legitimate concerns that it's focusing primarily on an event rather than those involved in the event, and it seems to be an organization related to the ASMLA, I would argue that this organization demonstrably has enough notability to warrant an article. As a reader first and an editor second, when a major attack is carried out by a then little-known group, I expect a place to read about them, regardless of how this young article is not in good shape. Furthermore, we shouldn't merge it into ASMLA when that article itself is quite short, and we'd establish a coatrack where half the article on the ASMLA is about a splinter group that is effectively separate from it. Brendon the Wizard  ✉️ ✨ 18:07, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly distinct splinter of ASMLA. Recent attack clearly generated SIGCOV for this group.Icewhiz (talk) 18:13, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. The movement has significant media coverage and is possibly connected to a terrorist attack. -- Evans1982 (talk) 01:50, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep it seems to be a separate splinter group--Panam2014 (talk) 19:58, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep This is a seperate splinter group from ASMLA. BRFC4104 (talk) 20:47, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. The Ahvaz National Resistance, although claiming to be part of the ASMLA, appears to be an organisation that separated from the ASMLA following a schism in 2015. Why shouldn't there be an article about it, given the group's notability? Ntmamgtw (talk) 11:55, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep – Passes WP:GNG w/ coverage in several sources (many not cited, just do a quick google search). Even BBC covered this... it's notable. Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs)  23:40, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz. SharabSalam (talk) 19:03, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep passes WP:GNG a separate splinter group .Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 17:58, 30 September 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.