Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thor Hesla


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The result was   merge to 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack. I've merged some content and will be converting this to redirect in just a moment. Additional content can be merged from history if desired. The Bushranger One ping only 00:55, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Thor Hesla

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It does not appear to me that this person meets our notability criteria for people. His being the victim of a notable military attack by the Taliban on foreign military officials and the foreign minister of Norway, the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack, seems the only thing that has motivated the creation of this article (apart from Hesla being a US national). Having just recently made a nomination, Articles for deletion/Carsten Thomassen (journalist), of another victim of this attack, I looked up this article and found it similarly absent of independent notability. meco (talk) 15:41, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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 * Merge with 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack. Seems to be just another tragic senseless bombing, and people aren't normally notable just for being victims of crimes. --Colapeninsula (talk) 16:47, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete (or possibly merge) as there is no evidence of Hesla being notable for anything than being killed in the attack. Arsenikk (talk)  21:41, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - No trace of Notability   Yash  t  101   09:01, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete or maybe Merge with 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack as per Colapeninsula. I did three newspaper sweeps and only found mentions of him being a victim in the attack. It was sad that this happened but we are all bound by Wikipedia's rules about notability.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:31, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment -- if anybody has a photo of Thor Hesla, and can identify the photographer (and provide the photographers' email address) please write something on my talk page (click on "talk" after this comment and write something at the bottom. And I'll try to help get a picture of Thor Hesla into the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack article.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 03:30, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - no indication of notabilty. Mentoz86 (talk) 17:58, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge verified information to 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack. Then create a redirect. Northamerica1000(talk) 03:12, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
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