Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Friday Night massacre


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The result was merge to 2020 United States Postal Service crisis. Unfortunately, merge & delete is not an option due to Copying within Wikipedia requirements. (non-admin closure) (t &#183; c)  buidhe  19:07, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Friday Night massacre

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Potentially controversial, but I think this is a WP:NEOLOGISM that fails WP:GNG. It's a term that's been applied to a few Trump administration firings, such as that of Geoffrey Berman (this was originally a redirect to that page), but I don't see sourcing from which an encyclopedic article could be created. Re-redirecting is an option, I suppose, but then we might have a WP:XY problem given the multiple contexts in which the term has been used. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 04:25, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 04:25, 2 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Merge content of firing to 2020 United States Postal Service crisis, then delete neologism that's not particularly specific to this incident. Reywas92Talk 05:45, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge content to 2020 United States Postal Service crisis and then delete per . As the editor that created the initial redirect to Berman, I think that I may have jumped the gun on creating it in the first place. While the sources at the time did refer to it as a "Friday Night massacre," it's pretty clear that there's now far too many potential targets to redirect to, and I don't think a disambiguation page would be particularly helpful. I don't see another option beyond deleting, unfortunately. OhKayeSierra (talk) 10:27, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge per above. —Brigade Piron (talk) 17:51, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Question/comment for closer. This is an odd case where it looks like (1) merging would be justified but (2) redirecting would not, because of the WP:XY problem I mentioned in the nom. Is there ever a case in which merging and then deleting would be appropriate? AleatoryPonderings (talk) 19:47, 6 October 2020 (UTC)


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