Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Campaign of Freedom of four diplomats


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 22:54, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Campaign of Freedom of four diplomats

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WP:SOAP Clear soapboxing for the politically motivated release campaign. From what I ready in other places, there are uncertainties about how and by whom the disappearance was executed, indeed if the 4 are still alive. It may be preferable to update the article about the 1982 Iranian diplomats kidnapping, but this article is just political soapboxing. Jake Brockman (talk) 17:06, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  J 947 (c)  22:33, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2017 April 21.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 03:15, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete As Nom says, we already have an article about the 1982 Iranian diplomats kidnapping. More to the point, sources in the article are controlled by the Iranian government, which makes them primary.  They can support Iranian govt. assertions, but not notability. The sole independent source is Al-Monitor, and the article opens like something that would run in The Onion: "Iran's Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan surprised many Iranians when he said that the four Iranians kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982 were still alive and being held in an Israeli prison." .  Article states that teh Iranian government formerly claimed that the diplomats were held by the Lebanese Phalange.  That was a year ago; there appears to have been no ongoing coverage.  Delete as an assertion lacking secondary, reliable sources. E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:13, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * delete. Whatever is salvageable could be merged to the 1982 article, in particular ongoing stmts from Iranian officials on the matter.Icewhiz (talk) 20:52, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete On top of being duplicative of another article, this is a bad machine translation. Whatever content may be salvageable should be merged carefully into 1982 Iranian diplomats kidnapping, and WP:TNT should be applied (without the rewrite). — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:42, 25 April 2017 (UTC)


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