Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Korean Air Flight 007 conspiracy theories


 * 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. W.marsh 14:24, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Korean Air Flight 007 conspiracy theories

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I mean no offense to the person who has made this his mission, but the article is totally unnecessary and fails to satisfy several policies and guidelines. (Like WP:RS or WP:V for example.) Korean Air Lines Flight 007 has a section discussing the theories which gained press attention, revolving around whether the plane was on a spy mission or a legitimate passenger flight. Anynobody 07:15, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete A slightly expanded entry in the main article is probably a better approach than this page.Alberon 10:04, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge, expand section in parent article a bit and redirect this one. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 10:19, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete By their very definition conspiracy theories generally can't be supported by reliable sources. --Nick Dowling 10:37, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete The usual utter bilge. Is there any event in the last hundred years which wasn't actually ochestrated by an evil cabal of aliens, jewish bankers and baby eating neoconservatives?  Nick mallory 11:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I orginally split this off the main article because it was so extensive that it overwhelmed the rest of the content. I had the naive hopes that the daugther article would be clean-upable, but sadly that hasn't happened, and it has become a POV magnet for a particular individual who runs a website that advocates that the plane didn't crash and that the passengers are still being held in the gulag.  AK Radecki Speaketh  16:00, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete What a mess! --John 17:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Agreed. As a followup to Akradecki's comment, the split off helped reduce the KAL 007 article to almost half of its former size (41,018 to 20,917), and did .  When half of an encylopedic article is facts and half is speculation about conspiracies, a split like that's an excellent move.  I think that it's better to have a septic tank to hold stuff you don't want stinking up the place, especially since the KAL 007 article was being ruined.  However, even a septic tank has to be cleaned.  The solution may be to pare down this article so that there can still be a section of the parent article that says, in effect, "Don't put that crap here". Mandsford 02:14, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It actually has been parred down, the only WP:RS I've found about conspiracy theories and KAL 007 are in the main article already. What's left isn't enough to justify a spin off, which is why that's up for deletion. Anynobody 06:13, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletions.   — FayssalF  -  Wiki me up®  13:15, 12 November 2007 (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.