Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/February 2021 Gijet massacre


 * 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. Consensus delete, as already covered in the other article. A redirect at this point is probably not the best option. Tone 13:09, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

February 2021 Gijet massacre

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Event does not pass WP:NEVENT or WP:GNG, primarily because the event as a massacre cannot be verified with any reliable sources. This article is dubiously sourced. Current version has 9 references: Annys/Atlas is WP:SELFPUB, Tasha is trivia, Reuters is the only one of consequence, and the remaining 6 (World radio, Euronews, CBC, Guardian, France24, Tibebu) don't mention the incident at all and are WP:COATRACK.

The only good citation (Reuters) covers the discovery by satellite imagery of 500+ buildings which had been set on fire and destroyed (not by shelling/bombing). It doesn't mention anyone killed. The number "195" was inserted by a now-blocked editor using as a source the 'Atlas' (Annys) document which only mentions it as a single line item in an appendix of a document self-published on ResearchGate. This event doesn't need to be a standalone article (fails WP:NEVENT), and the relevant content and citation are already included in the Timeline of the Tigray War series.

This article was part of a group of 106 almost-identical articles created by a now-blocked sockpuppet and were the subject of a prior AfD which was closed as "procedural keep" because 106 articles were too many bundled together for other editors to be able to effectively evaluate them in a single AfD. (43 of the original 106 have since been deleted, and another 28 turned into redirects.) Platonk (talk) 07:31, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethiopia-related deletion discussions. Platonk (talk) 07:31, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 08:13, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom and previous AFDs. Mztourist (talk) 14:16, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 * redirect to a more general article on the war. There is a civil war in progress in Ethiopia, in which some very unpleasant events (to say the least) are said to have taken place.  We need one article on that war, or a series on different stages of it, with one overall outline article, not a series of them on individual events however atrocious.  This series of massacre articles should not be allowed to remain as individual articles.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:23, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * There are already such articles as you suggest (see this navbar). The problem with these 106 'massacre' articles is that they were sourced by the editor's own self-published off-Wikipedia documents. He also invented these massacre titles; they are not used by the general media. If the media had been using the term that matches this article title, then I would have performed a blank-and-redirect rather than AfD. Prior to nominating any (or several) of these 106 articles for deletion, I will have already checked and updated Timeline of the Tigray War and Casualties of the Tigray War, which is where the information should have gone in the first place, not a standalone article. If there are no reliable sources for the event, then you probably won't see them mentioned in those two articles. Platonk (talk) 04:36, 31 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 08:36, 2 February 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.