Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Topple the Tyrants


 * 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   keep. No arguments for "outright" deletion aside from the nominator. The issue of merging can be discussed on the article's talk page. Note that per WP:MAD a redirect must be retained if content is merged. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:03, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Topple the Tyrants

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Quite clearly no more than a news item about a small group. — Half  Price  00:51, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep for 24 hours (lets see if the story grows)
 * Yeah it never struck me as being very notable - maybe just put a line about it in the articles on Gaddafi or his son, or on the Libyan protests. By all means give at a little while to see if the story develops, but if not it can be deleted for sure. Michaelmas1957 (talk) 20:20, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * However it has been on the international news (the netherlands, australia, and more). For just a bunch of guys they got pretty much attention. Though indeed I agree that this is just a footnote in history, it is a memorable footnote. Consider the opinions on these guys by anti/pro Ghadaffi Libya.

http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/9230282/__Huis_Kaddafi_gekraakt__.html?p=3,2 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/10/3159949.htm - AlwaysUnite (talk) 20:31, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. WP:NOTNEWS is always misused --- the policy actually says that breaking news should be treated the same as other material.  There are multiple secondary sources about the event, as per WP:GNG.  In any case, we can be certain that more news items will follow from this, since the group will continue to seek publicity while others will seek to forcibly end their encampment.  Though I do not believe we should attempt to evaluate "overall significance", if someone insists on considering that, I should point out that this item combines the UK's rather liberal accommodations for squatters with the ongoing situation in Libya.  Should a court uphold the right of an international war criminal to evict squatters from an address he can't visit?  Britain might make a sane decision about that, so people will call them crazy. Wnt (talk) 06:50, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge or Delete. Merge in to Seif al-Islam article. They are occupying one home of the son of Libya's Gaddafi. Nobody heard of them before they moved in. I doubt that anybody will remember them after they've been evicted.  Nipson anomhmata   (Talk) 16:57, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Alot of people are coming to the page, see http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Topple_the_Tyrants, and as mentioned above I think this may have a lot of potential for expanding in coverage, 92.14.159.160 (talk) 23:04, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge and Delete. Probably deserves mention at Squatting, but nevertheless not likely to be notable enough for an article of its own.  (Might even be too peripheral for mention in Seif al-Islam).  WikiDao    &#9775;  18:18, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems like a high-profile story to me, also as per WNT's comments. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, AKA TheArchaeologist Say Herro 19:13, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep—High-profile event that (seemingly) didn't get Portal:Current_Events'd and needs to be expanded. If more news is generated regarding the event, then the article definitely requires expansion (and CE inclusion), but if the story dies and is largely ignored, I'd support a merge.--thejoewoods (talk) 19:13, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep-I suppose it does have some significance when considering the global impacts of the Libyan crisis, and it is reasonably concise and well cited. Of course, it needs expansion, and as others have said, if it really seems to be going nowhere it can just be merged into the page on the crisis or Gadaffi as a footnote.Michaelmas1957 (talk) 22:43, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep passes GNG and therefore NOTNEWS. Non trivial coverage (full articles on the subject, not just mentioned in passing) in reliable sources (the Guardian, etc). Anarchangel (talk) 07:18, 16 March 2011 (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.