Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pakistan's role in the War on Terror


 * 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 with no proper consensus on how to possibly rename it. — ΛΧΣ  21™  03:57, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

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This reminds me of some high school student's essay for class, and not even a well-written essay at that. Wikipedia exists to inform, not to publish people's essays. I spotted at least one instance of weasel words as well. Honestly, I'm shocked the article didn't get nominated sooner... C h r o m a Nebula  (talk)   20:59, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep This is a highly notable topic. Pakistan's role in the War on Terror has been discussed pretty extensively, as it's not a simple one. There's bin Laden, just to name one very important element of the subject. Check the Google results—main, news, and Scholar—for many such examples (make sure you remove the quotation marks). Rename to something more concise, like Pakistan in the War on Terror and improve. --BDD (talk) 21:09, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep Highly notable, though not in the way the article has been written. A rename to Pakistan's double dealing in the war on terror would be closer to the mark :o) Darkness Shines (talk) 21:55, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Agree very notable subject, numerous sources present. The article may need clean up but it certainly does not deserve to be deleted.-- D Big X ray  23:50, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - a highly notable topic. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 00:32, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - per WP:NOTABILITY Mrt3366   (Talk?)   08:10, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Reluctant Keep Probably a valid topic, but awful in its current state and, as with most such articles, unlikely to ever avoid being essay-like and a magnet for POV contributions, with a superficial neutrality only being maintained via clumsy "on the one hand .. on the other" constructions. As noted, title change might also be needed, either to "Pakistan and the .." or "Pakistan in the .."  N-HH   talk / edits  11:24, 11 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Nominator comment: The article meets WP:NOTABILITY, but not WP:NOTESSAY. The question is which should take precedence. That's why I brought it to AfD--because there needs to be a discussion about which is more important. -- C h r o m a Nebula  (talk)   17:54, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The article has been tagged as essay-like for over two years, but this is not grounds for deletion for a topic that meets WP:GNG, as you concede this does. You could argue for WP:TNT. But this isn't "Geography and early childhood education" or "Online health treatment and doctors in bangladesh." Those were full of original research and synthesis; this one merely has an inappropriate tone, which is almost always better fixed by editing than by deletion (cf. WP:PRESERVE). --BDD (talk) 20:03, 11 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep: notable topic, AFD is not for clean up... try discussing on talk page. -- lTopGunl (talk) 09:49, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to War in North-West Pakistan which is essentially the same thing. Darkness Shines (talk) 14:29, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * While it could be improved greatly, it is basically a notable and verifiable topic. Keep. Bearian (talk) 21:02, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
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