Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Troubles in Whitehead, County Antrim


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 13:02, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

The Troubles in Whitehead, County Antrim

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Despite its name, this, and the many similar articles, is not an encyclopedia article (there are occasional exceptions such as The Troubles in Derry). It is not even correctly named, it really should be called List of people killed in Whitehead, County Antrim during the Troubles. But even if renamed it would not solve the problems with this article. Creating lists of non-notable people that died during a conflict is not encyclopedic, the articles only serve as memorials. It is not even helpful to split articles about the Troubles in this way, as deaths that occurred in different towns are often related to each other. If anyone believes it is possible to create an article detailing how the town of Whitehead was affected by the Troubles (in the same way as the Derry article linked above) they are welcome to try, but this is not a good starting point. FDW777 (talk) 10:42, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Northern Ireland-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:00, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. North America1000 22:17, 29 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete: this is the actual source of the 1975 list. Neither of these two people listed mention Whitehead at all and their deaths don't make this a notable topic. They might be suitable for listing in a different "Troubles" article but as the nom states we are not a memorial website. ww2censor (talk) 09:46, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * They are detailed as being found "near Whitehead" elsewhere on CAIN. Due to many killings taking place in rural areas I'd imagine there's a good number that occured "near" somewhere instead of "in" somewhere. FDW777 (talk) 22:25, 30 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom, WP:NOTDIRECTORY, WP:GNG and related guidelines. The limited information here could readily (assuming the sourcing issues highlighted above can be addressed) be covered in the Whitehead, County Antrim article. Otherwise, as has been noted above, even if the event listed in the "single point list article" met/meets WP:NEVENT, there would seem to be more wrong here than right (including the title, format, etc.) Guliolopez (talk) 19:21, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * This article, like the rest, was created because people objected to the inclusion of the non-notable deaths of non-notable people being included in the village/town/city articles. Obviously there are some incidents that are very signficant to the locations they occurred (Bloody Sunday/Bloody Friday/Claudy/Omagh etc), but the individual deaths of most people during the Troubles are generally not significant in historical terms. FDW777 (talk) 22:25, 30 June 2021 (UTC)


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