Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Islamic Emirate of Waziristan (3rd nomination)


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The result was merge to Waziristan. (non-admin closure) – Davey 2010 Talk 13:56, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
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A complete WP:COATRACK, there seems to be only two sources which make passing mentions of this so called "entity", nothing more. It survived two AFD's simply due to the fact that no one bothered to ask for sources and the argument "OH there are a lot of sources, I just cannot link them right now" was considered to be enough. The hilarious thing is that the entire wikipedia article about this "state" does not mention the state. This is like the article about "Taliban" not using the word "Taliban" in the entire article except the lede. This should be a SNOW for delete to be frank. Furthermore, I see from previous AFD discussions that not a single editor who voted for keep took the time to present any of his sources, they were just commenting saying "Oh there are a lot of reliabel sources out there". So this time, anyone who votes keep should be kind enough to include the links to sources which discuss this topic in depth. Otherwise such a comment appears to be mere words without any merit. RegardsFreeatlastChitchat (talk) 07:31, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep Before moving on to the content, I think the question here is whether there is any legitimacy/notability in the term. It seems to me that there are quite a number of books which use this phrase which could be considered to be reliable sources. These include this book and this book, both from 2013. There seem to be a fair number of others too, some apparently reporting that the previous President Musharraf negotiated a peace accord with them in 2006.
 * I can't really see a problem with the content, providing it is improved with better references. JMWt (talk) 09:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge to Waziristan or Waziristan Accord. Now that the WP:COATRACK seems to have been cleaned up, the remaining summary can be easily integrated IMHO. Although I've found many sources on Google Books and News that mention IEoW, none really go in depth. A stand-alone article thus would probably not pass WP:GNG's significant coverage. - HyperGaruda (talk) 15:47, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge to Waziristan or Waziristan Accord, as there is not much out there, and it is all about Taliban. Ceosad (talk) 19:45, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:29, 23 November 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 01:39, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:32, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
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