Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Springhill Avenue shooting 1987


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The result was delete. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:52, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Springhill Avenue shooting 1987

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While the article's title is "Springhill Avenue shooting 1987", the majority of the actual content in the article is about the IPLO vs INLA feud during the Troubles. Most of the content in the article that is about the actual topic appears to be WP:SYNTH, which leads me to believe that this subject doesn't have notability independent from other topics related to the Troubles. As someone with only passing knowledge of the conflict, I'm not sure whether some of this content is worth merging or spinning off into a new article (for instance, we don't seem to have an article about the INLA/IPLO feud that this article discusses) or if we should simply delete it, but either way the article should not exist as written under the current title. signed,Rosguill talk 17:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete - I agree with the nominator's reasoning. This article's author seemed to use the Springhill Avenue incident as a reason for writing an article on a much larger issue. Note that Springhill Avenue itself is only mentioned once in the main text. The 1987 incident on that street appears non-notable due to lack of reliable coverage as a specific event, and the article is not really about that event anyway. The author could use some of the text here to build a future article on the INLA/IPLO feud, or contribute it to the existing article on The Troubles. This Springhill Avenue article is nonsensical on its own terms. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 19:31, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - I tentatively agree. The 1987 event could very well be encyclopedic on its own, and an overhaul of this article is possible. However, a notice was placed on this page and removed without comment, similarly a note was made in the article's talk page and was not replied to. Both of these were done over a week ago and the article is not old/stale and the main editor is active. This strikes me as sufficient chance for the editor to begin to address the issues brought up. As they didn't, and as the article is a bit of a COATRACK, and as the event is not of obviously sufficient importance for other active editors to step in, I'm comfortable with deletion. I'm happy to change my !vote if a significant cleanup is carried out. I understand that AFD is not cleanup, but it isn't necessary to keep an article because it is possible that an encyclopedic article could be written for a given title. Smmurphy(Talk) 01:21, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete I do not think we need an article on every minor incident of the Troubles. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:12, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:TNT. Even if this were notable, which I doubt, it would have to be re-written from scratch. Bearian (talk) 18:38, 22 April 2019 (UTC)


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