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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Delete (all three): These pages are indeed all examples of what is discourage by
WP:NOTMEMORIAL writ large, stringing together events without sufficient notability to have had pages created about them. The appropriate place for notable or significantly covered events is indeed at one of the appropriate year-by-year timelines at
Template:Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Iskandar323 (
talk) 17:46, 17 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: I closed this discussion as a Soft Deletion but I was asked to revert my closure and relist this AFD so that's what I am doing. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LizRead!Talk! 18:41, 23 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep Useful, detailed data on a well studied and scrutinized international conflict. All three pages need cleanup and removal of certain data to address WP:NOTAMEMORIAL concerns, but the pages should stay imo.
Mistamystery (
talk) 20:04, 23 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep, but only the text. The tables listing each individual incident falls afoul of NOTMEMORIAL. On the fence about the gallery at the end.Clarityfiend (
talk) 01:07, 24 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Gallery should definitely go, imo.
And honestly, I think a combined single timeline of incidents (also limited only to the conventional timeline of the intifada, which these days go past) would, i think, be a useful and insightful window into the civilian oriented violence timeline of the conflict.
Regarding the sources, while they are some of the most prominently present compilations of incidents, they are by no means primary or solitary sources for these events. Helpful, if not crucial guides to the total documented events, but pretty much every incident can be backed by secondary sources (and should be).
This wiki page has been referred to constantly across the internet for many years now, and its information (and not from the B’tselem or Foreign Ministry pages) has been linked to from many domains.. I think it’s dangerous territory to batch delete necessary collection work like this just because of pat redundancy concerns. There isn’t enough good faith effort to attempt to justify people’s actions, and I’m seeing far too many quick-trigger page deletion requests for my own comfort. Would really appreciate endless notes and attempts before we just clear pages like this out.
Keep Per
WP:PRESERVE. Information is too useful and reported by reliable sources. Also it's better to have both Israeli and Palestinian civilian casualties in a single article. I don't think this falls into WP:NOTMEMORIAL since names are not even mentioned, but only the attacks.
Dovidroth (
talk) 06:15, 24 September 2023 (UTC)reply
90% of the tables are just copy pastes of exactly two B'Tselem web pages (
[1],
[2]) and one Israeli ministry of foreign affairs page (
[3]- also not a reliable source) that are all very much memorials. The resulting list here, which is predominantly composed of events that are not individually notable falls foul
WP:NOTDIRECTORY even if not
WP:NOTMEMORIAL, though taken as a whole, even without names these lists are still effectively a memorial. That the information is "useful" is not a policy-based argument for it to be kept. It is only here because it already exists out there on the internet at archive.org whose job it is to retain information. The suggestion above by Clarityfiend to simply delete the tables/lists and leave a stub of vaguely encyclopedic prose would be ok too not be of much worth either, see below.
Iskandar323 (
talk) 06:49, 24 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete covered at the main article well enough currently; the topic might be notable enough for a split, but the coverage at
the main article seems better to me so a
TNT seems appropriate here.
AryKun (
talk) 15:36, 24 September 2023 (UTC)reply
True on that last point: the main page for the conflict already has better prose, so the prose here is also not particularly worth salvaging. So
WP:TNT does indeed likely apply to that portion also.
Iskandar323 (
talk) 15:55, 24 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Still no consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LizRead!Talk! 00:21, 1 October 2023 (UTC)reply
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