Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Student activism in the BDS movement


 * 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   redirect to Students for Justice in Palestine. Redirecting instead of deleting, as redirects are cheap and there may be some information here that can be salvaged. Any sourced information that was contained in the article can of course be merged back into Students for Justice in Palestine. Lankiveil (speak to me) 09:26, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Student activism in the BDS movement

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there are so many things wrong with this page! it begins with a patently false statement - no such merger has occured. it appears that this page was created as Content forking, and interestingly enough, none of the criticisms didn't make the move when the editor created the split. (i have no problem in reintroducing some of the material on their appropriate pages.) Soosim (talk) 07:28, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
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 * DELETE Information can be merged into another article, if found credible. Z554 (talk) 00:12, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge Back into Students for Justice in Palestine and [added later per editor below: and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and delete article. That's where the material was and was removed without discussion. Then correct any problems with sources or interpretations of sources, etc. CarolMooreDC &#x1f5fd; 03:39, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment If we keep this, it really will need to be renamed to avoid confusion; I thought that it was something about students involved in BDSM advocacy. Nyttend (talk) 05:01, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete (or merge) per above. If merged, needs to be edited to remove the bias that is apparent in the first sentence. NawlinWiki (talk) 03:33, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge the relevant sections into Students for Justice in Palestine and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and delete article. Some of this belongs on the SJP page, and any general unique characteristics this article attributes to student BDS activism can go on the BDS page, as well as a few exemplary student BDS actions, so as to make the BDS article more comprehensive. As others have mentioned, there are inaccuracies even in the lead: "The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement has been led by student activists on college campuses. Campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) have prominently sponsored action in universities." In truth, student BDS activism is but a part of the international BDS movement which incorporates segments from all strata and sections of society, and it's essentially impossible to qualify or quantify which of these segments "leads" the BDS movement (especially since BDS is more of a strategy with constantly-evolving tactics than it is a "movement" as such), and, strictly speaking, if there is a "leader" of the BDS movement, it is the aggregate of persons and organizations from within Palestinian civil society from whom the 2005 BDS call originated. There's no "leader" in either a hierarchical sense or an understanding based on impact or effect. As to the second sentence in the lead, this has been brought up before in other discussions, but SJP doesn't really have "chapters", as SJP as an organization is completely decentralized and lacks any sort of regional, national, or international hierarchy (though some have amusingly tried to impose such a structure upon SJP). I realize these are more nitpicks than cogent defense of my suggestion to merge, but I think these issues speak to the greater problem with this article: what little content included in it isn't directly copied from other pages would likely have to be cut anyway for being factually incorrect, misleading, or at least lacking in a reliable source. Direct action (talk) 21:44, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - This article has no independent notability. Anything that is relevant in the article (and there are serious RS problems on the page) belongs in the Students for Justice in Palestine article.Scarletfire2112 (talk) 06:33, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. The article Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions does not meet WP:TOOLONG, as such as the subject of this AfD falls within the scope of the article Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a summarization of verifiable content and merger of that content to the parent article appears to be in order, with a redirect left in this space. If the parent article meets SIZELIMIT in the future a consensus on that article talk page can determine what part of that article can be spunoff as a subarticle.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 17:36, 21 April 2013 (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.