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Having checked through per
WP:BEFORE, significant coverages (
WP:SIGCOV) are rather poor for most 2nd and below tier formula classes given the reason for this nominations. Sources consists of almost entirely of
WP:PRIMARY. Additionally, Wikipedia is not a sportsheet for the most ardent of fans (
WP:NOTSTATS), whom anything less than first tier formula classes appeals to.
WP:AFD will be a redirect or merge to
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship (edit) and
2024 FIA Formula 2 Championship.
I am also nominating the following related pages for this same reason with more to be added in:
Keep all - It's standard practice to routinely split out individual races from their parent (season) article. This keeps the parent article (in this case
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship) readable. Your suggestion to merge, while also being a full admittance that there is notable content here, would cause the parent article to be far too cluttered.
WP:SIZESPLIT and
WP:NOMERGE once again apply here. "...whom anything less than first tier formula classes appeals to." That is your personal opinion and one which quite obviously has a lot of disagreement. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)23:21, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I wouldn't have minded them to exist if reliable third party sources exists to back them up, but no, we get sources consisting of mainly
WP:PRIMARY or nothing and do we need an
WP:INDISCRIMINATE amount of sports results to clutter Wikipedia with, especially those the most ardent minority of nerds bother with. There's always a home for them in Fandom. Nothing wrong with that site, though. People should think before shoving junk into Wikipedia.
SpacedFarmer (
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14:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
But you're not understanding that these are not standalone articles; their notability is established through sources which exist in the main article including Formula Scout and Autosport. The personal aspects of your rationale also really needs to stop, posthaste. Personal attacks like calling people "nerds" and calling their efforts "junk" are part of what got you sent to ANI before. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)15:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Wow, such snowflakes like the modern times, getting upset by words like 'nerds', I thought nerds like being called nerds. I was a car nerd at one time and am not ashamed of that label. I call 'efforts' like this junk because people write crap. Worse is that there is no source. Is this the standards Wikipedia is heading to?
"their notability is established through sources which exist in the main article including Formula Scout and Autosport" ...and not much else as checked
WP:BEFORE. So 3 sources make a subject notable per
WP:SIGCOV.
SpacedFarmer (
talk)
19:28, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
The statistics "split off" (they weren't split, these article were created separately) are not actually significant. The only significant results of feeder series are the championship results, which are already included on the relevant season article. 5225C (
talk •
contributions)
00:54, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
"(they weren't split, ...)" - Yes they were; the initial versions of these pages were redirects to the main article created by
MaxLikesStuff, created out of
WP:REDLINKS at the redirect target.
Radioactive39 then converted these redirects into sub-articles in order to add content rather than add it to the main article and clutter it up. The stats in these sub-articles are summarized in the main article. There is nothing in NOTSTATS which indicates that these sub-articles are in violation of it. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)04:05, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Formula One is the top tier of the sport and one of the (if not the single) most prestigious category in motorsport as a whole. The F1 equivalent pages to the ones included in this nomination,
using this article as an example, contain little more additional information. Reading
WP:NOTSTATS, the only thing these pages are missing is a little more summarised information. The nominated pages display the information in clear, concise tables and they provide information that is not available in the main season articles (
2024 Formula 2 Championship and
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship) and add context to the relevant motorsport championship.
Romero13 (
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10:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep per above discussion. These are not standalone articles — if you nominate these few you should go all the way back to
2004 and list all rounds of previous F3000, GP2, Formula 2, GP3 and Formula 3 seasons. But as much as some lack sufficient prose, all are notable individually and
WP:SECONDARY coverage exists. Nominator also gets a
WP:TROUT for their uncivil comments.
MSport1005 (
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18:09, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
"But as much as some lack sufficient prose..." I noticed that
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship does have summaries of the races in its prose, in line with the above-quoted section of
WP:NOTSTATS which I opine supports our keep !votes. This is the exact standard which I believe we strive for on Wikipedia as a whole;
SUMMARY-style prose in the main article, stats tables split out into their own sub-articles. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)18:21, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep. As mentioned above, these articles may not have any prose, but they have been a staple of the site for years, with GP2 and GP3 having had their individual race articles.
Delete. Lots of resume-material involving his works, miscellaneous papers, work experience, and poetry writing, but nothing that seems to definitively secure his notability. Closest thing might be his (failed?/successful?) candidacy for the assembly. The recent COI activity doesn't help either.
GuardianH (
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15:18, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment: This appears to be part of a cross multiple wiki spamming exercise by the creating editor. There is a possibility that this is self promotion, whcih I rate currently at a 0.75 probability. 🇺🇦
FiddleTimtrentFaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦
14:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
An article that lacks sufficient substantiated coverage. Not enough secondary sources. Not enough notability. Wikipedia is not a site for listing statistics.
EpicAdventurer (
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17:56, 28 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I have included additional reliable sources to substantiate the article. The tournament holds significant notability, similar to other CAFA tournaments that have their own pages.
Lunar Spectrum96 (
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19:25, 28 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. I don't think an under-14s tournament merits a redirect.
GiantSnowman10:31, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I was not able to verify the existence of this dynasty - the four references used in the article are also difficult to verify.
Semsûrî (
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19:10, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 4, p. 227: "In other towns, too, Arab chieftains came to build their castles and dominated the inhabitants ... in Urmiya Sadaqa b. 'Ali, a client of Azd". See also
https://iranicaonline.org/articles/rawwadids. I cannot verify the article as a whole or confirm if this is a notable dynasty, but it does not appear to be a fabrication.
Srnec (
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00:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete sourcing is weak, and does not sufficiently convey the idea of a "dynasty"; if the individuals involved are notable, they should have their own article, but their three-generation "dynasty" is almost certainly not.
~~ AirshipJungleman29 (
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00:02, 3 July 2024 (UTC)reply
The reason that there is so little knowledge about them is that they lived over 1,000 years ago and only ruled for around 50 years in a region wich was made up of villages, lots of mountains and a few small cities. Besides that, they seem to be the first Kurdish dynasty in History, so little information is to be expected.
Karkafs Desiderium (
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00:59, 3 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete: Only sources I find are where to stream his songs. what's used now in the article doesn't seem helpful, a registration number and his own website, then some allmusic listings. Lack of sourcing.
Oaktree b (
talk)
03:11, 27 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Already at AFD before so not eligible for Soft Deletion. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LizRead!Talk!05:58, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Merge to Telegram: Significant coverage in BBC Pidgin and likely in the non-English articles as well (which I cannot read). Telegram article is long but could easily accommodate a short section on the game, which seems to have drawn attention.
Mrfoogles (
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07:26, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete what is this? A game? A crypto-coin? A ponzi scheme? The sources don't say (and are largely about a related game called "Hamster Combat"), which demonstrates that there is insufficiently substantial coverage.
Walsh90210 (
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18:57, 26 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: In the first AFD discussion, the closure was Delete but this discussion is bringing up more possible outcomes. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LizRead!Talk!03:14, 3 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
The Open Network (TON). The Persian-language sources seem to be primarily about a hamster-related game of a different name that employs the Notcoin/"Natcoin" token. But I'm not seeing
WP:SIGCOV for Notcoin itself, at least not in sources that clear
WP:NCRYPTO; however,
WP:TRADES sources (
[1],
[2]) do show evidence that it's a major game/token on TON, so as an AtD that redirect makes sense. Like
Walsh90210 I would oppose a redirect to
Telegram.
Dclemens1971 (
talk)
13:27, 3 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment: I would urge anyone who comments in this discussion to look on the talk page from (one of) the subjects of the article.
GnocchiFan (
talk)
16:48, 19 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep: I think that Marziyeh Amirizadeh is too notable to delete. Maryam Rostampour is arguably notable as well, despite the fact that Marziyeh Amirizadeh is the only one of the two with continuing coverage. Eastmain (
talk •
contribs)01:15, 19 June 2024 (UTC)reply
If agreement is that there is enough information to split, I think this is a good idea. Otherwise, I think that Marziyeh Amirizadeh's name be removed from this article per request and this article moved to
Maryam Rostamour-Keller per your suggestion.
GnocchiFan (
talk)
22:00, 20 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Split I think it is reasonable to have this specific article deleted. However, I would be open to the thought of having a separate article for Maryam Rostampour if she is notable enough. Marziyeh Amirizadeh on the surface level appears to be a notable figure (I have not done much research into her life though), so I would be more comfortable with having a separate article for her.
❤HistoryTheorist❤18:35, 19 June 2024 (UTC)reply
A person claiming to be one of the subjects of the article requested that it be deleted because they don't want to be associated with the other person? The title is probably inappropriate and would be more appropriate as something else but this does appear to be a notable event.
Traumnovelle (
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22:11, 24 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Note that the editor claiming to be the subject says on the talk page that she paid $300 to have her Wikipedia article written. Is this the current draft, created by an editor who has edited no other topic?
PamD22:59, 24 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Crosswiki spam of a singer of very doubtful notability. Long past the time limit for draftification without a consensus here, and I think deletion would be appropriate.
Mccapra (
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21:24, 3 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete: This
[3] appears to be an interview... It's about all I find. The article now only has one source. Even with the one I found, we still don't have enough for notability.
Oaktree b (
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23:59, 3 July 2024 (UTC)reply
the whole article is OR and synth. it starts with Jesus, who is reffered here as "King of Martyrs", then goes to Eichmann, then to Jewish and Palestinian terrorr attacks. The whole article is cherry-picking, and the implied comparison of Jesus, Eichmann, and "The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa" (sic!) is OR. There are enough articles on the subject (
List of Israeli assassinations,
List of Palestinian suicide attacks, etc) and there is no need for another synth one.
and it completely fails NPOV : "An eye for an eye", "King of Martyrs", "he refused to commit sin unto the point of shedding blood", "The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa", "prominent militant", etc
Artem.G (
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13:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete as unnecessary, every section has a "Main article" or "See also". I don't see that NPOV or OR problems are clear. I do see NPOV problems but I don't see them as deliberately pushing a position. The editor is interesting but I'm commenting on what's here.
Sammy D III (
talk)
02:00, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete: This article seems repetitive and leans heavily towards one perspective. The information it covers is already well-established in other articles.
Waqar💬16:13, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment. This is not a content fork of
List of Israeli assassinations because it covers different events. But it is arguably a
WP:COATRACK if one considers it as a regular page. Even the title ("Executions and assassinations") indicates this is a WP:COATRACK. This could be a list page, but the criteria for inclusion are not clear. At the very least, the criteria should be defined and the page fixed.
My very best wishes (
talk)
16:31, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Can't find anything beyond a story in the wrap and a handbook by his organization (which has been deleted). Given the lack of an Israeli page, it seems Israeli sources are unlikely as well. One source is not enough for
WP:GNGAllan Nonymous (
talk)
23:30, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting. Content can't be merged to
Idealist.org as this page is a redirect. Is there a different target article? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LizRead!Talk!23:18, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
this provides an in depth look at Segal's political views and places them in the context of Israeli right wing media, and indicates notability beyond Israeli media
this is a lengthy, in-depth interview dedicated to Segal, in Israel's highest circulation mainstream newspaper. This alone satisfies
WP:SIGCOV.
this provides English language coverage of a notable controversy he was involved with, showing notability beyond Israel (DW is a German broadcaster)
The problem is that these are interviews, quoted content, and shared sexism in a tv-show. Not independent content or SIGCOV. These media are actually good. Buzzfeed is acceptable because of the author.
gidonb (
talk)
16:53, 23 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I think you are misreading the defintion of "independent" - ""Independent of the subject" excludes works produced by the article's subject or someone affiliated with it. For example, advertising, press releases, autobiographies, and the subject's website are not considered independent."- an interview with Segal is not produced by him but by the paper and journalist interviewing him.
Regardless, while the DW article includes a very short quote from Segal, it is neither an interview nor focused on that quote. Instead, it describes the controversy Segal was involved with, with other 3rd parties commenting about Segal.
Kentucky Rain24 (
talk)
17:04, 23 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I'll take another look and weigh again how much is independent content about Segal. Not ruling out any conclusion yet.
gidonb (
talk)
17:07, 23 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete: There's coverage that mentions him, such as the DW article, but these aren't about this person. This
[6] also mentions him, but just barely as the article talks about his employer. We don't have enough substantial coverage to keep the article
Oaktree b (
talk)
03:23, 27 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I don't think that "mentions him, but just barely " is a fair assessment of
[7] - the article is about an event in which he is the main subject - his employer suspended him for something he did. He is the subject of both the headline and the sub-headline, he is the main topic of the first and second paragraphs ("The Kan public broadcasting corporation on Thursday suspended one of its anchors because he appeared in a video"; "News presenter Erel Segal was suspended, pending further notice, after the video was uploaded to Netanyahu’s Twitter account earlier Thursday."), he is mentioned in the 3rd and 4th paragraphs and is the subject of the 5th, there's a quote from the PM of Israel about him etc...
Kentucky Rain24 (
talk)
14:16, 27 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep. A very well-known journalist in Israel, and there are many sources for this. In addition, he is also a writer (2 books) and a musician. (Full disclosure: I wrote the article).
HaOfa (
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09:33, 27 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Fails
WP:NSKATE; medal placement at the junior level or bronze/silver medals at the national championships do not meet the requirements of
WP:NSKATE. Google search turns up nothing outside of wikis and scoring databases. Previous AFD received zero arguments in favor of keeping this article that cited any evidence of notability.
Bgsu98(Talk)02:11, 17 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete: Not notable enough based on the competitions she won, or did not win, having placed only silver in the Nationals, then 17th in the World Championships, then nothing more after that.
Prof.PMarini (
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07:35, 25 June 2024 (UTC)reply
She won twice silver medals in Israel. I wouldn't discount the huge efforts that go into that with "only" and "nothing more". A redirect is well deserved and as ATD and CHEAP usually takes precedence over delete.
gidonb (
talk)
11:59, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Mushy Yank, Per WP:MULTSOURCES The appearance of different articles in the same newspaper is still one source (one publisher) And even with coverage in The Jerusalem Post , it falls short of meeting the GNG as well WP:SIRS.—
Saqib (
talk)
16:31, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Sorry, how does any of the 3 articles fall(s) short of meeting (....) WP:SIRS? Both newspapers are 1) independent, 2) considered reliable on WP; 3) the coverage is significant and 4) the articles are secondary sources . So why does this movement not meet GNG then? -
My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)16:45, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete: "International" means Europe and Israel in this case. The movement is unknown in North America (and based on the lack of sourcing, I'm assuming everywhere else). The UPE (twice 'round) is another red flag, this is PROMO. There is no sourcing I'd consider about this "group", it appears to be a SYNTH.
Oaktree b (
talk)
20:33, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply
?? International means across different countries! Yes Poland and Hungary are in Europe and Israel is in the Middle-East, and neither is in America yet. True. But do you have a problem with that? Shall we delete every page related to those regions? Good luck. Ping me when you have a consensus. And "unknown in North America"..... how would you know and how would it matter? Notability is based on significant coverage in reliable sources not on the assumption that no one in North America reads Haaretz or The Jerusalem Post, that are widely considered some of the most notable newspapers in Israel. Lack of sourcing? No sourcing?? Please do read the page and this discussion again.....As for promotional intent, no idea, feel free to correct any phrasing or wording you find inappropriate....-
My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)21:23, 13 June 2024 (UTC) (PS..Added article In Politico (:D) with 3 paragraphs on the movement. ....)reply
Correct, sourcing is about various small groups, not about this confederation of groups. This is a European event at this point with Israel stuck on for good measure.
Oaktree b (
talk)
23:16, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I don't understand your comment. 2 major newspapers (+ Politico) cover THIS movement in 3 articles, and it is referred to under its name. What small groups that would not be this confederation are you referring to? In what sources? -
My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)06:27, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply
And I know because I'm in North America, and media here hasn't covered it. See for yourself
[8] or
[9] and Mexico for good measure
[10]. A re-hashed PR item isn't really what we're looking for.
Oaktree b (
talk)
23:22, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply
No.
No. Sorry but the nominator's deliberate lack of response to the issue they themselves raised and commented is at the very least misleading and so is the way they justify their refusal with repeating their comment about potential paid contributions: the COI/Paid contributions issue does not change the fact that we're discussing content here, not investigating behaviour. Sources show the page does not meet
deletion for promotional content (if that is what the nominator has in mind, but not sure, as they didn't elaborate any further). Quite the opposite, as it does appear the subject does seem to meet the requirements for notability, see above and below. So, no, the Afd cannot be speedy-closed now, unless nomination is withdrawn and everyone agrees the subject is notable, but I suppose that is not what you had in mind. That would be the only way to allow an early close so far, imv, though. But both nominator and you might know that by now
since the nominator has asked this elsewhere, in a discussion where you also were active, so I that should suppose you've read it (:D) and you both probably simply didn't update your comments..... So although this is technically a reply, I am rather mentioning this so that the closer and other users should not waste too much time on that part of the discussion. -
My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)19:41, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply
That's exactly what I thought I was doing and was only mentioning the nominator's lack of response, to explain that what they had said was misleading. I did so so that other users should indeed not be misled to believe that this discussion was over, that notability was not the issue or that this could be early-closed. Sorry if I gave the nominator the impression that I was focusing on their person. But I thank you all the same for your suggestion and time. -
My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)20:31, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment: It appears the "manifesto" (for lack of a better word) was sent out to various media outlets, none of which seem to have picked it up.
[11] is all there is, outside of the two sources from Israel. This reads as pretty much a rehashing of the same news/PR item mentioned above. I'm still not seeing notability.
Oaktree b (
talk)
23:19, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply
So, it's not notable on the English Wikipedia because it is "unknown in North America (...) and everywhere else" because American media haven't covered it, and despite the fact that 2 major Israeli newspapers have covered it (one, twice)? OK. That's what I thought. -
My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)06:45, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply
???? Jerusalem Post= one newspaper, one article. Haaretz=one (very different) newspaper, with two different articles. That's three articles, which, if you wish, you can count as coming from 2 different sources only, but not 1! Add Politico (which was not an Israeli website last time I checked and is owned by an....American group:D), 3 paragraphs. You can turn this the way you want but you cannot count only one source. -
My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)13:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Mushy Yank, OK allow me evaluate the coverage you provided to address your doubts - Haaretz is behind a paywall, so I can't access those articles. However, I've reviewed the coverage from Jerusalem Post and Politico, and both fail to meet the GNG.
The Jerusalem Post coverage is based on an interview, which does not qualify as independent coverage. While the
Politico coverage is merely a WP:TRIVIALMENTION and does not provide the in-depth, significant coverage needed to establish GNG.You've participated in hundreds of AfDs, so by now you should at the very minimum know that we don't rely on TRIVIALMENTION as well interview-based coverage to establish GNG. Are you purposefully insisting that the article meets GNG, despite it clearly falling short? Well I see it as WP:DISRUPTIVE and WP:TIMESINK, then. Allow me repeat GNG requires strong, independent sourcing that offers in-depth information about the subject and neither of these coverage meets that standard. Feel free to ask if there's anything else you'd like me to clarify, so that you can stop from labeling my nomination as misleading. —
Saqib (
talk)
21:02, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I am not calling your nominationmisleading. Your comments about the fact that discussing notability was not needed (and your sudden lack of response to replies I had made to your comments on my !vote and comments) were, as anyone can now verify, but I sincerely don't think that was on purpose, and thanks for clarifying that point. As for your assessment of the sources, I pretty much disagree with everything you say (The JP article is presenting excerpts from an interview only in its second half and Politico has 3 paragraphs on the movement; although the article in Politico is a bit unclear).
Regarding your other comments (disruptive, timesink), allow me to sigh again (the time sink accusation might prove a double-edged sword) but feel free to raise the issue elsewhere, if believing that what I find to be multiple reliable sources offering significant coverage is enough for notability, and daring to !vote accordingly and explain why when my !vote is commented (by you, as it is your habit when a !vote does not go your way) is not allowed when you have decided something is not notable. -
My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)21:46, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Look I've no interest in raise the issue elsewhere as it doesn't concern me greatly. You've stated your case, I've made mine, so there's no need to prolong this debate. If it's my habit to argue when a !vote does not go my way, it should be yours as well so let's avoid pointing fingers at each other. I leave this discussion to others to decide the fate of an article on a non-notable subject created by a confirmed UPE. See you around!
Saqib (
talk)
22:00, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting. Whether or not the article creator was/is an SPA or a paid editor doesn't mean an article should be deleted, it's not grounds of deletion. If you believe so, please quote the policy that states this. What matters is whether this article subject meets GNG or NCORP which is based on the quality of the sourcing. If there are factors of the article that can be improved by editing, they should be. Also, an article subject doesn't have to internationally important to be considered notable. Please focus on notability of the subject and existing sources establishing this, not who created the article (unless they are a block-evading sockpuppet). Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LizRead!Talk!16:42, 20 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete clearly fails
WP:NORG, along with the UPE concerns. I have no idea how two brief mentions in sentences in the Politico article can be considered SIGCOV, and the other articles are close to press release regurgitations.
SportingFlyerT·C12:11, 23 June 2024 (UTC)reply
the whole article is OR and synth. it starts with Jesus, who is reffered here as "King of Martyrs", then goes to Eichmann, then to Jewish and Palestinian terrorr attacks. The whole article is cherry-picking, and the implied comparison of Jesus, Eichmann, and "The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa" (sic!) is OR. There are enough articles on the subject (
List of Israeli assassinations,
List of Palestinian suicide attacks, etc) and there is no need for another synth one.
and it completely fails NPOV : "An eye for an eye", "King of Martyrs", "he refused to commit sin unto the point of shedding blood", "The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa", "prominent militant", etc
Artem.G (
talk)
13:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete as unnecessary, every section has a "Main article" or "See also". I don't see that NPOV or OR problems are clear. I do see NPOV problems but I don't see them as deliberately pushing a position. The editor is interesting but I'm commenting on what's here.
Sammy D III (
talk)
02:00, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete: This article seems repetitive and leans heavily towards one perspective. The information it covers is already well-established in other articles.
Waqar💬16:13, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment. This is not a content fork of
List of Israeli assassinations because it covers different events. But it is arguably a
WP:COATRACK if one considers it as a regular page. Even the title ("Executions and assassinations") indicates this is a WP:COATRACK. This could be a list page, but the criteria for inclusion are not clear. At the very least, the criteria should be defined and the page fixed.
My very best wishes (
talk)
16:31, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
I've been trying to solicit advice about Islamic Association of Palestine and merging it into Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. I don't want to force a
WP:SILENCE on this, as I assume this may be contentious and relate to
WP:ARBPIA, but it seemed noone was interested in a merge discussion after a month.
Information about the trial
The IAP article is a POVFork about the same trial as the HLF, with the same individuals and facts of the trial, and the
original version of the article IAP last month went really deep into various conspirary theories linking IAP to every other Muslim organization in some grand "Jihad" terrorist ring. Particularly egregiously, the support for the conspiracy theory was from a source that was attempting to debunk it. The sourcing for HistoryCommons.org is a deadlink. And a source from
Matthew Levitt is used more than ten times to make up most of this article, a person from the very pro-Israeli
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and a key witness for the trial. Relying so heavily on sourcing that is intrinsically related to the trial seems like a good argument to suggest this is an article about the HLF trial and not the IAP as an organization.
Information about what the IAP
I can't seem to find anything specific about the IAP from a lot of searches that doesn't immediately reference the HLF trial, and some of the sourcing on this that seemed to talk more specifically about the IAP is from deadlinks. If the only thing notable about the IAP is the HLF trial, then the article should be just merged into the HLF trial page.
I cleaned up some of it, but there is not enough differences between the two versions I think to justify making a new article.
Keep. Not seeing how it's a purported POVFORK. Per sources, the
Islamic Association of Palestine is a separate organization from the
Holy Land Foundation, so they should not be in the same article. An editor's perception of bias is not a reason for AfD, which is determined by coverage in
WP:RS. Levvitt is a scholar and reliable source. Affiliation with an organization perceived as bias does not affect whether the source is credible and a reliable source of facts. Lots of coverage in source across the ideological spectrum that clearly establishes
WP:GNG:
Second, third, fourth article is about the HLF trial.
Fifth source mentions IAP for one paragraph, and includes HLF.
6th source uses a scratch note from one Muslim Brotherhood guy that was never accepted by any other muslim brotherhood. This 1991 note became the basis for the
Civilization Jihad conspiracy theory in the 2000s to 2010s.
matthew Levitt was the key witness for HLF trial, and his work is entirely about proving financial connections between groups. His writings are about the holy land 5.
i argue that if this article is mostly about the trial to convict the 5, and the IAP is not sufficiently notable by itself except in context of the trial, it should be merged (maybe keep as a subsection in HLF what it did).
User:Sawerchessread (
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23:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I'd argue that a passing mention (one word mention) in three of these sources also suggests it is a passing reference as part of discussion for the HLF trial.
I want to find more sourcing beyond the HLF trial and its repercussions, that there is enough info besides just the HLF trial to suggest it warrants an article
User:Sawerchessread (
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23:32, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply
That Matthew Levitt source is used 11 times throughout this article, when in the Holy Land article, his sourcing is used only once suggests a POV Fork.
"Similarly, to judge from his acknowledgements and his notes, Levitt depends heavily on analyses from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center of the Center for Special Studies — an Israeli nongovernmental organization created "in memory of the fallen of the Israeli intelligence community" and staffed by its former employees... None of this would matter if Levitt used the center's analyses critically, but he doesn't appear to. As a result, there will be readers of this book who will see it as fronting for the Israeli intelligence establishment and its views."
Not arguing he's not academic, just biased (As is every source on Israel/palestine), and that citing him heavily about the trial and the evidence tying the defendents together in one article, and not citing heavily in another suggests a POV fork.
User:Sawerchessread (
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23:39, 29 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep. The Islamic Association of Palestine is a different organization from the Holy Land Foundation. How is this a
POV fork of the
Holy Land Foundation - the article does not exclusively rely on Levitt's writings, directly cites an FBI report, and refers to a different organization from the HLF. Both were convicted of providing material support for terrorism and were proven to be fundraising arms for Hamas, alongside the
Quranic Literacy Institute. All three organizations are notable as per
the general notability guideline as per the sources
Longhornsg provided. This article could easily be repaired by bringing in sources from the other two articles about the Holy Land Foundation case, so that the article is not largely reliant on Levitt, given possible concerns of bias. In order for something to be a POV fork, it must be on the same topic as another article. The
Holy Land Foundation article is about the Holy Land Foundation, whereas this article is about the Islamic Association of Palestine.
It discusses the same trial to the same five men for 95% of the article. The suggestion to bring it into line by including sourcing from the other article would be to keep discussing the trial.
Having checked through per
WP:BEFORE, significant coverages (
WP:SIGCOV) are rather poor for most 2nd and below tier formula classes given the reason for this nominations. Sources consists of almost entirely of
WP:PRIMARY. Additionally, Wikipedia is not a sportsheet for the most ardent of fans (
WP:NOTSTATS), whom anything less than first tier formula classes appeals to.
WP:AFD will be a redirect or merge to
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship (edit) and
2024 FIA Formula 2 Championship.
I am also nominating the following related pages for this same reason with more to be added in:
Keep all - It's standard practice to routinely split out individual races from their parent (season) article. This keeps the parent article (in this case
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship) readable. Your suggestion to merge, while also being a full admittance that there is notable content here, would cause the parent article to be far too cluttered.
WP:SIZESPLIT and
WP:NOMERGE once again apply here. "...whom anything less than first tier formula classes appeals to." That is your personal opinion and one which quite obviously has a lot of disagreement. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)23:21, 30 June 2024 (UTC)reply
I wouldn't have minded them to exist if reliable third party sources exists to back them up, but no, we get sources consisting of mainly
WP:PRIMARY or nothing and do we need an
WP:INDISCRIMINATE amount of sports results to clutter Wikipedia with, especially those the most ardent minority of nerds bother with. There's always a home for them in Fandom. Nothing wrong with that site, though. People should think before shoving junk into Wikipedia.
SpacedFarmer (
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14:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
But you're not understanding that these are not standalone articles; their notability is established through sources which exist in the main article including Formula Scout and Autosport. The personal aspects of your rationale also really needs to stop, posthaste. Personal attacks like calling people "nerds" and calling their efforts "junk" are part of what got you sent to ANI before. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)15:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Wow, such snowflakes like the modern times, getting upset by words like 'nerds', I thought nerds like being called nerds. I was a car nerd at one time and am not ashamed of that label. I call 'efforts' like this junk because people write crap. Worse is that there is no source. Is this the standards Wikipedia is heading to?
"their notability is established through sources which exist in the main article including Formula Scout and Autosport" ...and not much else as checked
WP:BEFORE. So 3 sources make a subject notable per
WP:SIGCOV.
SpacedFarmer (
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19:28, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
The statistics "split off" (they weren't split, these article were created separately) are not actually significant. The only significant results of feeder series are the championship results, which are already included on the relevant season article. 5225C (
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00:54, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
"(they weren't split, ...)" - Yes they were; the initial versions of these pages were redirects to the main article created by
MaxLikesStuff, created out of
WP:REDLINKS at the redirect target.
Radioactive39 then converted these redirects into sub-articles in order to add content rather than add it to the main article and clutter it up. The stats in these sub-articles are summarized in the main article. There is nothing in NOTSTATS which indicates that these sub-articles are in violation of it. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)04:05, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Formula One is the top tier of the sport and one of the (if not the single) most prestigious category in motorsport as a whole. The F1 equivalent pages to the ones included in this nomination,
using this article as an example, contain little more additional information. Reading
WP:NOTSTATS, the only thing these pages are missing is a little more summarised information. The nominated pages display the information in clear, concise tables and they provide information that is not available in the main season articles (
2024 Formula 2 Championship and
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship) and add context to the relevant motorsport championship.
Romero13 (
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10:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep per above discussion. These are not standalone articles — if you nominate these few you should go all the way back to
2004 and list all rounds of previous F3000, GP2, Formula 2, GP3 and Formula 3 seasons. But as much as some lack sufficient prose, all are notable individually and
WP:SECONDARY coverage exists. Nominator also gets a
WP:TROUT for their uncivil comments.
MSport1005 (
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18:09, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
"But as much as some lack sufficient prose..." I noticed that
2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship does have summaries of the races in its prose, in line with the above-quoted section of
WP:NOTSTATS which I opine supports our keep !votes. This is the exact standard which I believe we strive for on Wikipedia as a whole;
SUMMARY-style prose in the main article, stats tables split out into their own sub-articles. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk)18:21, 1 July 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep. As mentioned above, these articles may not have any prose, but they have been a staple of the site for years, with GP2 and GP3 having had their individual race articles.
WP:NOTNEWS, non Wiki worthy news event only covered by Turkish media. Creator has a history of pro-Kurdish agenda editing and creation of articles generally negative of
Turkey, and Turkish government
Ecrusized (
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22:20, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply
WP:NOTNEWS, non Wiki worthy news event only covered by Turkish media. Creator has a history of pro-Kurdish agenda editing and creation of articles generally negative of
Turkey, and Turkish government.
Ecrusized (
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22:23, 2 July 2024 (UTC)reply