Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islamic Emirate of Waziristan (2nd 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   keep. Listed for 14 days with no arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. The issue of merging can continue on the article's talk page (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:14, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
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No organization claims this name. It was mentioned as a hypothetical name in a 2006 Newsweek article and has not appeared since. Shii (tock) 02:06, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:06, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:06, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nominator's analysis is simply incorrect.  GNews shows usages running through 2009; GBooks shows the term showing up in more than 20 recently published books; and GScholar shows its use in more than a dozen recent works. The existing article needs attention from someone with more specialized knowledge than I have. The initial AFD reached the right outcome, and no reason to overturn it has been provided. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 19:52, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Contrary to the nominator's statement, there are plenty of reliable sources that refer to the "Islamic Emirate of Waziristan", and this was covered in the last AfD. Lexicon (talk) 05:12, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * As it stands the article is nonsense. I challenge anyone to improve it based on the references on Google Scholar. Shii (tock) 07:47, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * (crickets chirpin) Seriously, I will just merge this article into Waziristan regardless of the AfD outcome. It's disgraceful in its current form. Shii (tock) 17:28, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Please don't do that. If this is to be merged anywhere then there are several better potential targets, such as Taliban, War in North-West Pakistan or Waziristan Accord, and, anyway, if you do merge it against consensus then it will be quickly reverted (I have watchlisted the article just to make sure). Phil Bridger (talk) 21:28, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  00:22, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Waziristan Accord, the relevant context, outside which this entity has no notability at all. rudra (talk) 10:39, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge with Waziristan and Waziristan Accord, pick a name out of those three for the article and redirect the others to it. --JokerXtreme (talk) 13:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Article was gutted of sources in mid-February. I have restored it. Edward321 (talk) 14:14, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep Notable article IJA (talk) 13:00, 20 March 2010 (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.