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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article.-- KGV ( Talk) 05:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Any chance at a birthdate? Sherurcij ( talk) ( Terrorist Wikiproject) 13:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Added "citation needed" tags to sentences about al-Ghamdi's family as no source is given. BeefontheBone 16:05, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
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Don't shoot the messenger. I am merely quoting Wikipedia policy. It is a policy, not just a guideline. Mrs.EasterBunny 23:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I said this elsewhere, but let me repeat it here: the Marwan al-Shehhi AfD was a "groundless AfD." The overwhelming consensus was to keep. All of these 9-11 hijacker articles are about historical significant people. In addition, the person who made the AfD nomination stated he/she did it because "the victims of (9-11) terrorist attack articles are routinely deleted citing non-notability." The admin was being polite in saying this was a "groundless AfD." I'd probably have closed the AfD earlier with stronger words than that. There is no need to merge any of these articles.-- Alabamaboy 20:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
This issue has been resolved at WP:AN. The AFD for Marwan al-Shehhi is now declared to be keep but was not a groundless AFD. Furthermore, the orginal administrator did not substantiate the comment of "groundless AFD". See diff http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=160782334 UTAFA 21:42, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article.-- KGV ( Talk) 05:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Any chance at a birthdate? Sherurcij ( talk) ( Terrorist Wikiproject) 13:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Added "citation needed" tags to sentences about al-Ghamdi's family as no source is given. BeefontheBone 16:05, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BLP1E#Articles_about_living_people_notable_only_for_one_event
states
The bare fact that someone has been in the news does not in itself imply that they should be the subject of an encyclopedia entry. Where a person is mentioned by name in a Wikipedia article about a larger subject, but remains of essentially low profile themselves, we should generally avoid having an article on them.
If reliable sources only cover the person in the context of a particular event, then a separate biography is unlikely to be warranted. Marginal biographies on people with no independent notability can give undue weight to the events in the context of the individual, create redundancy and additional maintenance overhead, and cause problems for our neutral point of view policy. In such cases, a redirect or merge are usually the better options. Cover the event, not the person.
Don't shoot the messenger. I am merely quoting Wikipedia policy. It is a policy, not just a guideline. Mrs.EasterBunny 23:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
I said this elsewhere, but let me repeat it here: the Marwan al-Shehhi AfD was a "groundless AfD." The overwhelming consensus was to keep. All of these 9-11 hijacker articles are about historical significant people. In addition, the person who made the AfD nomination stated he/she did it because "the victims of (9-11) terrorist attack articles are routinely deleted citing non-notability." The admin was being polite in saying this was a "groundless AfD." I'd probably have closed the AfD earlier with stronger words than that. There is no need to merge any of these articles.-- Alabamaboy 20:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
This issue has been resolved at WP:AN. The AFD for Marwan al-Shehhi is now declared to be keep but was not a groundless AFD. Furthermore, the orginal administrator did not substantiate the comment of "groundless AFD". See diff http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=160782334 UTAFA 21:42, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
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Why is probably on a wiki? This seems amateur. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7000:E43F:9867:4CA3:8A3E:A917:E6EE ( talk) 15:15, 10 April 2022 (UTC)