Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/August 14th clashes


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The result was   speedy keep. WP:SNOW — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:53, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

August 14th clashes

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WP is not the news, Political_violence_in_Egypt_(July_2013–present) already exists μηδείς (talk) 02:08, 15 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete/Merge The stub was created for the sole (good faith) purpose of bolstering an WP:In the news nomination. But Wikipedia is not the news and creating a single page for one days of clashes in an ongoing civil war is the essence of a needless fork.  This item should be deleted or merged into an appropriate larger article. μηδείς (talk) 01:08, 15 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Strong keep (and possible speedy close) - This is a massive story with hundreds of dead and is a huge turn of events. The article is no longer a stub and merging would overwhelm any potential target article. --ThaddeusB (talk) 01:13, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Are you kidding? Keep, of course, and close this nomination. Everyking (talk) 01:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * No, we already have Political violence in Egypt (July 2013–present) and this stub merely copies that while introducing a few new facts that are now sufficient for a stand-alone article. This article should be merged into the latter.
 * That is a very inaccurate description of the difference between the summary at Political violence in Egypt (July 2013–present) (6 sentence/1.5 paragraphs) and this article (8 paragraphs excluding lead & background). No doubt this article will continue to grow as well. --ThaddeusB (talk) 02:16, 15 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep We should wait and see how this develops. Sure, it's very recent, but that shouldn't diminish its importance. Based on the ambiguously old statistics in the Political violence in Egypt (July 2013–present) infobox, it appears that this over doubles the death count. 8ty3hree (talk) 02:53, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep The event is such a important turning of the political violence in Egypt that it receives great international concerns. Which makes it deserve a single article. --Liberty & equality  —Preceding undated comment added 03:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2013 August 15.  Snotbot   t &bull; c &raquo;  02:14, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 02:39, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
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 * Speedy Keep, these are by far the most violent clashes since the coup, and represents a dramatic escalation which does warrant a separate article. As this is an ongoing situation, the article could always be renamed as events unfold. --Tdl1060 (talk) 04:11, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment - the actual article is August 2013 Egyptian clashes; it was moved. Ansh666 04:20, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per above, give it some time. This single event may have larger repercussions than you may think, and definitely more than the other news stories up at AfD right now. Ansh666 04:20, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Possible rename to something slightly more accurate? Don't know... Ansh666 07:12, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep and Speedy Close per above. This incident is notable and has developed to such an extent that a few paragraphs in another article won't adequately cover the key points.-- Forward  Unto   Dawn  05:27, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep Seriously? I believe that if a similar situation arose in the USA, we will cover it in as much detail as possible. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 05:38, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * strong keep as a highly notable series of events. Was going to reccomen creating this if it wasn't already. Though the title needs to be in line consistently, and as such 14 August clashes is more in lineLihaas (talk) 07:06, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
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