Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tolikara riot


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The result was delete.  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 16:21, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Tolikara riot

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A run of the mill riot. I don't see anything exceptional here. Article fails WP:EVENT and WP:NOTNEWS. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:48, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Not seeing any greater significance here, and Wikipedia is not a newspaper. The death of a child is a shame, of course, but if we had an article on every child's untimely death, we would pretty much break the internet. -Kudzu1 (talk) 04:30, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
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 * Strong Delete I doubt that we will ever know what happened, but, certainly, printing a story like this based on local sources risks allowing WP to be used to disseminate misleading information or outright propaganda.  As written when I looked (just now), the article asserts that the riot "was an attack and arson in July 17, 2015, targeting Muslims in the Tolikara Regency, Papua province, Indonesia. The attack occurred when local Muslims were performing the Eid prayer."  It was sparked when someone put out a false bulletin asserting that the rights of Christians were about to be restricted in some unspecified manner.   Upon hearing that such a report was abroad, "To avoid conflict the Muslims (gathered for Eid prayers)  immediately dispersed themselves."  Despite this Muslim caution and restraint, we are told that the Christians rioted violently and the outcome was that a Christian boy was killed and 12 Christians injured but no Muslims were killed and none reported harmed by this article.   I have no idea what happened.  But given the sources available for coverage of events in rural Papua (province) - no reliable ones, as far as I know -  I strongly suggest that we delete articles of this ilk.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:12, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment -- I read all too often of Muslimns persecuting Christians and oppressing them. It is good to have a case where the boot was on the other foot.  Javans transmmigrating to west New Guinea are essentially moving into an alien environment and should not be imposing their culture on the indigenous poipulation.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:46, 23 July 2015 (UTC)


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