Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohammad Al-Bor'ey


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The result was   Delete. Stifle (talk) 15:38, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Mohammad Al-Bor'ey
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 * Included in this nomination

Both of these articles are contested prods and fail WP:N and WP:BLP. The death of these children is tragic, yes, but they themselves have done nothing of note worthy of being included here. Wikipedia is not a memorial, and these articles currently only serve as propaganda due to their heavily biased nature. I'd speedy them both for A7, but unfortunately the age of the articles and the previous prods require that we go through process. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 22:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:23, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Palestine-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:23, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I am the one who created these articles and I'd like to mention these points:
 * There were a lot of victims died during second intifada and I agree with you that we can't write about these people just because they died. Iman Hijo and Mohammad al-boraey are special cases. These childrens' death got special attention from media (both arabian and international ones) for many reasons and some of them can be concluded from the articles.
 * mohammad al-bor'ey name can be written in english by many ways and I don't know which way of writing is the most famous so I used my own spelling for his name. Therefore, if someone searched for his name in english by a specific spelling, he/she would find a few results. Mohammad can be written as: Mohammad, Mohammed, Muhammad, Muhammed, Mohamad and so on. Al-Bor'ey can be written like: Al-Bor'ey, Al-Bora'ey, Al-Boraey, AlBor'ey, Al Bor'ey ..etc. --Osm agha (talk) 19:06, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete tragic not an encyclopedic topic. The incident can be mentioned as an illustration in a wider article if required. A biography of the individual is anappropriate.--Troikoalogo (talk) 21:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BLP#1E Morbidthoughts (talk) 08:37, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. This AfD is a classic example of systemic bias, which we should try to avoid in Wikipedia. These articles should be expanded to address the concerns here, not deleted. It's unfortunate that most of the reliable sources are in Arabic, which may give the (false) impression that they fail WP:N. If these articles are deleted, then by the same argument so should most of the biographies in Category:Israeli casualties during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (and probably a whole shower of others I haven't got time to look for). One may also note the implication (I'm sure unintended by the nominator) that so many children have been killed by the IDF that the death of one such victim is no longer, ipso facto, notable. There is, incidentally, no such link as WP:BLP (it's WP:BLP1E). NSH001 (talk) 11:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


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