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
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This article has a number of problems and should be deleted. It is a violation of our policies on
WP:OR. The article's existence takes many separate incidents, almost all of which already have independent Wikipedia pages, and amalgamates them into one big crisis that doesn't seem to exist in reliable sources. This is a type of synthesis/original research. I do not see support in reliable sources for the idea that all of these incidents are part of a single, sustained, 2-3 year crisis that is separable from
Iran–United States relations.
The article also adds to confusion by being titled 2019-2021 but stating that the crisis is "ongoing" in the lead sentence while also covering events in 2022. Finally,
WP:TNT applies; there are significant
WP:PROSELINE issues.
Apologies for the long nomination statement - this is a complex case. I previously brought up the issue on the
WP:NORN noticeboard, which I linked on the article's talk page with a ping to major contributors, but received little response.
—Ganesha811 (
talk) 16:05, 6 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment Searching for "persian gulf crisis -wikipedia" in Google, with results limited to those published on or after 1/1/2021, gives a bunch of hits (
[1],
[2],
[3]), but these all appear to be discussing the conflict (or whatever noun should be use here) between
Qatar and it's neighbors, including
Saudi Arabia. What I'm not seeing is evidence that all these events discussed in the article are being treated as a single coherent "crisis" in reliable sources. Skimming thru (all I have time for now; hence just a "comment" at this point), I get a feeling that the article is at the minimum in need of massive trimming and an overhaul, as well as likely a renaming to something else. -
Ljleppan (
talk) 09:31, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete as a case of
WP:TNT. There might be an article to be rescued somewhere inside there (perhaps as something like US-Iran crisis (2019-20??)), but there's just so much prose (88597 characters, according to DYK Check, with 320k bytes of wikisource) that cutting all this down into something even vaguely in
WP:SUMMARYSTYLE seems too much to ask from anyone. If someone came forth and volunteered to do the legwork, I'd have no objection to giving them the chance to. But as it now stands, I think, I'd imagine the sheer scale of the article will put off anyone from doing even the most minor changes. -
Ljleppan (
talk) 08:14, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete as
WP:SYNTH. Even given Ljleppan's considerations,
WP:TNT would be warranted. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (
投稿) 04:03, 10 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep and clean up There was indeed a recognized period of heightened military tensions ("crisis") in the Persian Gulf region between the Trump Administration and the Iranian government between 2019 and 2021 as detailed and documented in the article, supported by numerous linked RS. The crisis specifically prompted the creation of the
International Maritime Security Construct military consortium that is still active today. However, the crisis died down by the end of 2021 and, instead of just wiping away all of that information overnight, editors should declare the crisis over during the onset of the Biden administration to prevent
WP:SYNTH. Or, alternatively, follow-up on Ljleppan's considerations.
RopeTricks (
talk) 04:12, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Which sources in particular refer to a sustained 2019-2021 crisis that is separable from
Iran-United States relations? There are a lot of sources in the article, so it's possible I missed it, but none of the references I checked supported the idea of treating all these separate events as a single crisis which has now ended.
—Ganesha811 (
talk) 15:53, 12 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, StarMississippi 00:51, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete as WP:synth.
Fad Ariff (
talk) 11:59, 14 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep and clean up. The 2019-2021 Gulf crisis is real and well documented. The response that
RopeTricks received, after he raised this, is that the end date of the crisis is unknown. While this is correct per se, it doesn't really matter. It is very difficult to write recent history and the next serious flare may convince some that this subdued crisis is ongoing. THE POINT is that such a recent end date, if at all, does not matter for keeping or deleting. Different points of view can be portrayed until a broader consensus is reached. It does not make the crisis unreal.
gidonb (
talk) 19:35, 17 September 2022 (UTC)reply
The sources used in the paper are mostly
OR. Actually "a source "directly supports" a given piece of material if the information is present explicitly in the source,"(
WP:VERIFY). This is while the sources are used mainly based on the feelings and judgements of the users who thought the content were relevant to the topic, without paying attention to fact that the sources should explicitly talk about Persian Gulf Crisis. --
Mhhosseintalk 04:37, 18 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Can you point me to this paper that uses mostly OR sources? Also, please explain: why would the sources of a single reference terribly matter? Finally, in which way is yours not an
WP:IDONTLIKEIT argument, like all other delete arguments here?
gidonb (
talk) 23:49, 19 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. The number of sources verifying individual pieces of content does not matter; we need sources discussing the topic-as-a-whole, and I'm not seeing those. Vanamonde (
Talk) 18:36, 21 September 2022 (UTC)reply
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