Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yazidis in Afrin


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:31, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Yazidis in Afrin

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The article "Yazidis in Afrin region" was deleted after this AfD. The creator of the article,, was notified, but did not take part in the discussion. Three days after the deletion of the article, it was recreated by the same editor with the current, slightly different, name. Since the AfD had been closed with Delete, I tagged the article for speedy deletion by criteria WP:G4. The article creator removed the tag, was reverted and warned, but removed it again without edit summary or other explanation. In the meantime had contested the deletion "because it is an important topic which has every place in an encyclopedia". Instead of reinserting the illegally removed tag, I have decided to start this new AfD, since the first AfC was rather poorly attended.

The lede of the article is a verbatim copy from Yazidis in Syria. As far as I remember, the first now deleted version was slightly adjusted to speak at least partly specifically about the Yazidis in the Afrin region. This time the word Afrin is not even mentioned in the lede. The second part of the article, the section "Turkish military operation in Afrin", consisted originally of two more paragraphs. Those were a verbatim quotation from a news report, so I removed them as blatant WP:COPYVIO. The remaining sentence is a mention of air strikes against a number of villages. Only one of the villages mentioned seems to have a Wiki article, since "Qatme" probably is Qatma, and that article does not mention Yazidis. (It is, however, contained in the category Category:Yazidi.)

Anyways, this article does not, IMHO, have a place in Wikipedia. T*U (talk) 09:54, 22 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete as an unnecessary content fork. --T*U (talk) 09:54, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. MT TrainDiscuss 10:22, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Syria-related deletion discussions. MT TrainDiscuss 10:22, 22 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete & salt per G5 as this is a repeated creation (variation) of a long time blocked user. CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  16:28, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete per nom. SportingFlyer (talk) 20:45, 22 February 2018 (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.