Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Autonomous Region of Ezidkhan


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The result was delete. Uncontested.  Sandstein  09:13, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Autonomous Region of Ezidkhan

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I'm struggling to find reliable sources discussing such an autonomous region. The sources given either don't seem reliable/independent or mention such a reason. One of them, dated last August, even says " Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has established a self-governance council in Sinjar, in a bid to separate the Yezidi region from Kurdistan." but although the article mentions the PKK it doesn't say the ARE was established by them (and the material is rom Ezidkhan. Although I have sympathy for the plight of the Yazidis there's been a long term attempt to use articles to promote their cause in an unecyclopedic way.Note that this article itself is copied from material I reverted at Ezidkhan yesterday as did User:Ravensfire last month after I reverted it then. Doug Weller  talk 07:36, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Going back a bit further in my memory and the page, the new article isn't much changed from an earlier version of Ezidkhan that I took to NORN last October. Doug Weller  talk 07:47, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. MT TrainDiscuss 08:07, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iraq-related deletion discussions. MT TrainDiscuss 08:07, 13 February 2018 (UTC)


 * This could be a case where the name used in the Wikipedia article doesn't reflect that used outside, if I search "autonomous region of yYazidis" I get lots of results, but with the actual article title get almost none, most of the sources seem to mention the Yazidi people so the article title could simply be a mistranslation or an improper name given. --Donald Trung (Talk) (Articles) Respect mobile users. 09:41, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * You didn't put the phrase in quote marks, nothing showed up when I did that, and the first source I checked was about something completely different but used all the the words. Doug Weller  talk 11:12, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment Articles for deletion/Waheed Mandoo Hammo was about the Prime Minister of this group, which appears to be self-proclaimed. There should be a mention of this at Ezidkhan, but without additional sources that show this is a functioning organization and not just an advocacy effort, the stand-alone article is WP:UNDUE. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 18:18, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete, inadequate sourcing. We already have the article Ezidkhan, where this material was added yesterday, then reverted by Doug Weller as POV (presumably because poorly sourced) and then an hour and a half later, this article was created. That looks like a mere end run round the problems inherent in the text (poor sourcing, unencyclopedic promotion of a cause). Bishonen &#124; talk 19:56, 13 February 2018 (UTC).


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