Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of military strikes against presumed terrorist targets


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The result was delete. Tone 18:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

List of military strikes against presumed terrorist targets

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The list would, if actually accurate, end up covering a huge amount of cases due to the inherent ambiguity of defining 'terrorist attacks' and 'military strikes', when all those cases are going to be covered by much better defined lists. Keepcalmandchill (talk) 04:27, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete - per WP:SALAT, "Lists that are too general or too broad in scope have little value, unless they are split into sections." Also does not meet any of the three WP:CSC criteria for lists. -- Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 19:33, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep but remove unsourced or poorly sourced entries. NavjotSR (talk) 17:00, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - the list NPOV nightmare and practically unworkable due to vague inclusion criteria. Turkey officially considers every strike against Kurdish organisations an anti-terrorist strike, Israel does the same regarding their strikes against Hezbollah and Hamas. US considered killing Qassem Soleimani an attack on terrorist target, and Iran took same stance on their missile strike against US bases in Iraq! This list is pretty much guaranteed to be a problem ridden mess forever.--Staberinde (talk) 18:30, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete -- This is an anti-American POV piece. I suspect that every attack from Gaza on Israel could be included and certainly Israeli attacks on Gaza and Hezbollah.  The "list" is in fact set out as an article, not a list.  It also raises the issue of what is a terrorist.  Assad regards all his opponents as terrorists, apparently treating the word as a synonym for rebel, so that he regards all civilians in rebel controlled areas as "terrorists" and hence as legitimate military targets.  This is contrary to the Geneva Conventions on attacks on civilians.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:18, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


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