Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arson attacks on asylum centres in Sweden


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) — Nnadigoodluck 🇳🇬 03:11, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Arson attacks on asylum centres in Sweden

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WP:NOTNEWS and WP:SYNTH. This is just an indiscriminate list of incidents involving arson attacks on asylum centers in Sweden. The very few examples provided in this article have not actually been proven to be perpetrated by Swedish nationalists, just suspected to be as such. There's a distinct difference. Outside of that, I'm not seeing anything in this article that indicates these attacks are an endemic problem. They simply feel like isolated incidents. Love of Corey (talk) 06:28, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sweden-related deletion discussions. - hako9 (talk) 06:56, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. - hako9 (talk) 06:57, 25 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep, but rename to List of arson attacks on asylum seekers in Sweden, because there are sources not only about a number of specific incidents, but about the phenomenon "More than 90 arson attacks on asylum seekers' housing", this, this, etc. The subject was indeed described in RS as something worthy a page or a list. My very best wishes (talk) 17:59, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Undecided. The current sources are, honestly, not very good, and having an article on arson attacks on asylum centres in Sweden focus only on the last few years is deeply ahistorical, as this is hardly a new phenomenon but has a distinct echo of he 90s, when they were aimed largely at refugees from the Yugoslav Wars. It's probably possible to find better sources in Swedish, that might contextualise it. This radio documentary probably has some background (I haven't listened to it and am not going to), and there are better shorter news pieces in Swedish, like this one. Either way, I don't think it should be made into a list: the individual incidents aren't terribly interesting, many of them minor fires, but the phenomenon should be, could it be substantiated. This definitely has been an endemic problem, perhaps even more so in the 90s than recently, and that simple fact can be verified by the sources posted in this discussion. /Julle (talk) 00:26, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, no, some searching later, this is definitely something one can write about in with more context. More general articles: Sydsvenskan, SVT. And apparently this is one of the areas covered by sv:Heléne Lööw, Mattias Gardell and Michael Dahlberg-Grundberg in their book Den ensamme terroristen? : Om lone wolves, näthat och brinnande flyktingförläggningar (en: The Lone Terrorist? : On Lone Wolves, Online Hate and Burning Asylum Centres), which is probably one of the best sources available. /Julle (talk) 01:02, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:43, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable topic which is widely known in Sweden.★Trekker (talk) 16:15, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - article needs some work but is widely knowm in Sweden. And within WP:GNG.BabbaQ (talk) 20:22, 3 August 2020 (UTC)


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