Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Third Eritrean Civil War


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:57, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Third Eritrean Civil War

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There is no reliable source anywhere suggesting Eritrea is experiencing or has experienced a third civil war. B-Machine (talk) 22:19, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete per my comments here. Parsecboy (talk) 22:31, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. No RS? Yeeeeeer outta here! - The Bushranger Return fire Flank speed 04:28, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Worth a mention, but not a merge and certainly definitely not as a redirect, in Eritrean civil wars. There are ten cites to things like this, which seem to be RS to me about incidents of post-war violence, which is inevitable in any conflict.  However, as others have pointed out, there is no reliable source that indicates that anyone is calling this a "Third Eritrean Civil War", or even another war at all.  In the absence of such a description by others, the writing an article about a brand new war is pure original synthesis.  Mandsford (talk) 15:24, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:01, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete In this edit the article was moved from 'Eritrean Civil War' to 'Third Eritrean Civil War' by, who is a sockpuppet of the indef blocked editor . Top Gun was blocked, for among other things, for widespread original research. On the basis of their edits, I suspect that the creator of this article, (who has since also been indef blocked for disruptive editing and sock puppetry) was another Top Gun sock - it is a characteristic of Top Gun's socks to continue work on the same articles. As such, no word of this article can be trusted and it would be best to delete it. Nick-D (talk) 10:39, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * In that case, I think that this can be speedied under a G5, since the article's creator and the contributors are all on the "no fly" list. I always thought that it was part of the procedure to put a PROD tag on an article first, and then going through the nomination process if the tag were removed.  In any event, if an attempt had been made to notify the article's author before the nomination began, I think that he would have been spotted as a sock right away, before we went through all this discussion. Mandsford (talk) 13:00, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I advised the nominator to bring the article to AFD; we knew the author had been indef blocked, so there was no point in trying to contact him/her. Given the likelihood of the connection between Jersay and Top Gun, I'd agree with you wrt this being speedied. Parsecboy (talk) 14:56, 7 May 2010 (UTC)


 * 'Delete It may be that some of the info can be placed in otehr pages, but there seems to be no RS refering to this 'war'.Slatersteven (talk) 15:04, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per Mandsford. I'm sure these individual events took place, but calling it a war smacks of synth.  No source seems to describe it as part of a war at all. Ranger Steve (talk) 21:23, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:RS. If indeed there is insurgent activity, it's not a civil war-- DA I (Δ) 12:44, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
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