Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edwin Dyer (second nomination)


 * 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   redirect to Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb. It is clear that the individual this article is about is not notable enough; I'm not sure how much there is to merge, but redirecting seems sensible enough. / ƒETCH COMMS  /  00:26, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Edwin Dyer

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The subject is clearly a case of WP:ONEEVENT, sad though it is. This article is a result of a few news articles, and there is no article on any kidnapping or larger event of which this content could be a part. As WP is no a memorial and WP is not the news, this article should be deleted -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 03:05, 20 October 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:10, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions.  --  Marcus   Qwertyus   23:46, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Move to January 2009 kidnapping in Niger (or something along those lines) and convert to an article about the event. The event seems to scrape by with notability, if not the individual. I'd also agree to a merger to Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb if others deem the event unworthy of an article. I believe that the previous discussion bears this out.  bahamut0013  words deeds 14:29, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions.  — bahamut0013  words deeds  14:29, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - happy for the article to be moved per Bahamut's suggestion, but I doubt anyone is going to write the article anytime soon so as it stands the current subject is non-notable and should be deleted. Anotherclown (talk) 01:14, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge and Redirect to Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb. Buckshot06 (talk) 17:38, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Merge: seems a reasonable solution. I agree with the nominator, though, while an unfortunate situation, the subject does not qualify for a stand-alone article. AustralianRupert (talk) 12:07, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
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