Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waukegan Riot


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 05:56, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Waukegan Riot

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I'm not particularly convinced that we actually need an article to explain that something didn't happen. I suppose that it might be possible to create and properly source an article about the distinction between an overblown "media frenzy" and the actual reality of the situation, but as written this is completely unsourced and resembles the thesis statement for an essay more than an encyclopedia article. Delete unless somebody can salvage this as something actually worth having in an encyclopedia. Bearcat (talk) 17:43, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:23, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:23, 6 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 'ummmm, uh, yeah I suppose this ought to be deleted as a bit of original research, seeing as how the claim that there was a riot is circulating around on right-wing agitprop forums and the like. I found real references to a riot in a commission report published back in the early 1920s but nothing for 1966 except these sites, which are obviously unreliable. However, by the same token I could not find anyone attempting to refute this assertion either. Mangoe (talk) 20:45, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * If no one is controverting it, that may be because it is not worth the penny. --Bejnar (talk) 17:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete for lack of significant coverage in reliable sources, hence fails WP:GNG, but also for failure to make a claim of notability, and as above. --Bejnar (talk) 17:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
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