Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bin Laden's bookshelf


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The result was Delete. --MelanieN (talk) 19:47, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Bin Laden's bookshelf

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Essentially the copy of a US government document listing documents found with Osama bin Laden. Wikipedia is not a repository for "public domain or other source material such as entire books or source code, original historical documents, letters, laws, proclamations, and other source material that are only useful when presented with their original, unmodified wording. Complete copies of primary sources may go into Wikisource, but not on Wikipedia." The existence of this list should instead be mentioned, with a brief summary of the contents, at Death of Osama bin Laden.  Sandstein  16:30, 20 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - WP:NOTREPOSITORY is fitting here. Un-encyclopedic minutiae. Tarc (talk) 16:56, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - WP:NOTREPOSITORY as per the excellent and accurate nomination. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:36, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - TarkusAB  18:01, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Maralia (talk) 19:19, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - Per nom. The release of these documents might warrant an article, but the list of documents itself ain't right. NickCT (talk) 19:20, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per the noms spot on analysis, We aint a repository. – Davey 2010 Talk 20:21, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per above reasoning. --A guy saved by Jesus (talk) 21:44, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Surely this is a WP:COPYVIO?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 06:37, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
 * It is a copyvio, and don't call me Shirley. - User:Leslie Nielsen 07:37, 21 May 2015
 * Given that this is a list released by the US government, it will be free of copyright as a PD-US Government work. Nick-D (talk) 08:23, 21 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete Trivia Nick-D (talk) 08:23, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:57, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:58, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Terrorism-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:58, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:58, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Keep. The article definitely needs improving (I have started moving some of the named documents to the article's talkpage, in case they need to return and done a bit of a cleanup but more is required:)) but the subject is WP:NOTEWORTHY, as it meets WP:GNG. A google search brings up numerous notable sources including from the first 20 hits -  In Osama bin Laden Library: Illuminati and Bob Woodward (New York Times),   Osama bin Laden: US intelligence declassifies more than 100 documents seized during 2011 raid (ABC News),   US releases trove of Osama bin Laden letters (AlJazeera)   Bin Laden's 'bookshelf' included 9/11 conspiracy material (Politico)   U.S. Releases Documents Seized From Osama Bin Laden's Compound (npr),   Months before U.S. raid, bin Laden considered leaving Pakistan compound (The Washington Post),   Bin Laden documents reveal a paranoid family man fixated on the west (The Guardian),   US releases more than 100 documents recovered from Osama bin Laden raid (The Guardian),   Bin Laden's surprising Taste in Literature (The Atlantic),  Osama bin Laden's bookshelf: The contents of the terrorist’s personal library (Sydney Morning Herald),  Bin Laden in hiding: Hatching horrific plots despite crippling attacks on al-Qaida (NBC News). There are plenty more. Coolabahapple (talk) 18:34, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not a library-catalog. The Banner talk 12:49, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: There are some articles out there like this one that discuss BL's bookshelf, but offhand I'd say that this looks like it'd be best served as a 1-2 paragraph summary on BL's article as opposed to its own article. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  06:48, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
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