Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Aden (2019)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Tone 07:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Battle of Aden (2019)

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queried speedy delete Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:29, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Speedy-delete-tagged as "blocked user", but has many edits and has been worked on by several or many users. Likewise with these 4:
 * 2019 Shaybah attack
 * 2019 Israeli airstrikes in Iraq
 * 2019 East–West Pipeline attack
 * 2019 Aden Missile Strike
 * Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:33, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Yemen-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:57, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Strongly Oppose The articles are important recent events, contributed by other users. The creator being blocked does not justify their deletion. Pretty unreasonable request. KasimMejia (talk) 07:26, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete all.. Wikipedia is not a newspaper. No hits whatsoever for the so-called 2019 "Battle of Aden", which the article itself calls merely a "series of clashes" over three weeks. The "Shaybah attack" was an unmanned drone attack that caused no casualties nor any disruption to its target. And so on and so on. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:34, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - - was it your intent to nominate all 5?  If so, the four not in the original nom have not had AfD tags added to them.  Onel 5969  TT me 11:23, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I have now tagged them. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:47, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, wasn't sure if that was your intention. Onel 5969  TT me 15:27, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - The only substantive edits made by others are by IP's, which very well might be socks of the original puppet. Similarly, 2019 Aden Missile Strike, 2019 East–West Pipeline attack and 2019 Shaybah attack did not have substantive edits from other editors, which is the standard which would allow the articles to have been speedied. The only article with significant contributions from a known non-sock is 2019 Israeli airstrikes in Iraq. So if the other 4 are also up for deletion, I would definitely delete 3 of them. Onel 5969  TT me 11:23, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - I'm open to the arguments around WP:NOTNEWS, but the objections above based on the creating editors being blocked or IP-editors is pure WP:GRAVEDANCING and WP:ADHOMINEM and not a WP:DELREASON. Similarly there is no need to speedy delete articles because they were created by a blocked user and the admin who declined the speedy was correct to do so. WP:G5 only applies to articles known or reasonably believed to have been created by a user after that user has been blocked - articles created before that cannot be speedied under G5, and there is no evidence of that here. FOARP (talk) 13:18, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


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