Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aqrab massacre


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The result was   Snow Keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:36, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Aqrab massacre

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Lacking any reliable sources. It is possible that the massacre has not happened at all. The accounts on both sides differ, it is not possible to figure out either the perpetrators or the number of victims. Emesik (talk) 19:44, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep - The article has plenty of reliable sources (apart from one Facebook link), and it doesn't matter that there are disagreeing views, articles have never been deleted on that basis. Seems the nominator has misunderstood the process. FunkMonk (talk) 19:46, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep - Just because two sides do not share a neutral POV doesn't warrant the deletion of an article in question. There are a plethora of secondary sources that I have found on the event.  I would like to suggest that the nominator carefully read over WP:BEFORE before opening any future AFD nominations.  Stubbleboy 20:06, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Some very notable reliable sources cited in the references. The two policies that come to play here are WP:NOTNEWS and WP:N/CA. The news coverage is not routine and a massacre will have enduring historic notability. In regards to N/CA, this is an extremely high profile crime as cited by the guideline's inclusion criteria. Mkdw talk 05:23, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Please don't overestimate notability of this event. There were many incidents during the Syrian civil war, where more people died and still they don't have separate articles. When it comes to Arqab Massacre, first of all, we don't know what happened or even if it happened at all (WP:V). Second, the most probable number of victims doesn't make this event more notable than a bigger road accident and strategic significance for the war is none (WP:N). --Emesik (talk) 10:47, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per others. Reliable sources provided, event was notable in the media at the time, no reason to delete. EkoGraf (talk) 15:40, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Syria-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:11, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Snow Keep per others.--Epeefleche (talk) 03:26, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
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