Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Attack on Russian diplomats in Iraq


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The result was KEEP. Hu12 08:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Attack on Russian diplomats in Iraq

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I don't think this is notable eough to warrant an article. It happened eight months ago, and there are no other articles linking to it. If it were notable and important, some other article would link to it. Sable232 04:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Categorizing debate: S (Society topics)  ◄    Zahakiel    ►   15:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)


 * keep or Merge There are links of some articles of this kind in Terrorist attacks of the Iraq War. We can keep it or merge it.-- Sa.vakilian(t-c) 05:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, an obviously notable event (imagine had this happened to US or UK diplomats). Needs more references and some cleanup. The number of articles linking in is not, in itself, a measure of notability. -- Dhartung | Talk 09:07, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - The subject of multiple published incidences of nontrivial coverage by third parties - nom strongly relies upon the idea that Wikipedia is a finished product, which is completely untrue. WilyD 15:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep This meets notability, which points to a weakness in our notability guideline. Right now, notability sticks forever, but at some point no one is going to have any interest in the event except for a few specialists or historians. There needs to be some way of reviewing these event-based articles after they've aged because eventually too many of them will clutter up category pages and search results, making it harder for readers to search. I'll step down from my soap box now. Noroton 16:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You seem to be dismissing this as "just another terrorist attack in Iraq" (my interpretation), but geographic coordinates aside, it seems to be in many ways another reasonably important event in the ongoing Second Chechen War. At least, that's what the people who took credit for it claimed. -- Dhartung | Talk 06:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - This needs major clean up though. Artaxiad 21:27, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * keep clearly notable and relevant.--Sefringle 02:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong keep per WP:N and WP:CSB. The event received coverage in CNN and the NYT; that's more than enough.  The definition of notability used by the nominator does not seem to be the one present at Notability.  Furthermore, notability is generally permanent, and the fact of its occurrence several months ago is not relevant.  Lastly, lacking links to articles is hardly a sign of non-notability; someone familiar with articles on the Iraq War could add such links within a matter of seconds.  -- Black Falcon 05:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I have rewritten the article (see diff) to address valid concerns (raised above) that the article requires significant cleanup and requires additional references. -- Black Falcon 06:48, 28 March 2007 (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.