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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The result was delete. No evidence of longterm importance is presented or accepted (mentions like
this one are prima facie not in-depth discussions); NOTNEWS and NOTMEMORIAL apply.
Drmies (
talk) 03:33, 30 July 2015 (UTC)reply
This is nothing except a memorial article for a non-notable person killed in an (unfortunately) commonplace event. Violates
WP:NOTMEMORIAL as well as
WP:NOTNEWS. Also a fine example of
WP:RECENTISM; within a month or two this event will be almost entirely forgotten. Creator named it "Terrorist Shooting of Danny Gonen", which suggests an improper purpose.
Zerotalk 16:03, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Assertion about article's original name is false.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 20:00, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
I didn't say that it was the original name,
here is where you renamed it. And I'll note your comment "starting article on awful, cold-blooded murder" on your creation edit. It was indeed awful, but that is not and has never been justification for an article.
Zerotalk 00:57, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Indeed, after TheLongTone prodded it for deletion on the NOTNEWS argument I changed the name in the belief that LongTone had mistaken the article for a merely horrific but "routine" criminal shooting, not realizing that it was an act of terrorism. And that others might repeat that error. In fact - at first - I thought that you had made the same mistake when you brought it to AFD.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 14:58, 28 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Nom has clearly failed to perform
WP:BEFORE, I am a major fan of
WP:BEFORE. Editors who perform due diligence as per WP:BEFORE are unlikely to nominate articles that, like this one, cover a topic that received in-depth media coverage, is well-sourced, and is part of a routine Wikipedia practice of having articles that cover episodes of terrorism; recent examples of this policy include
2015 Chattanooga shootings (the article on which I modeled this article and title), and
2015 Boston beheading plot.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 16:20, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete: the snow is falling I PRODed this as
WP:NOTNEWS. PROD removed by article creator who described the PROD as "frivolous". Not so. 13:36, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Keep As per
WP:GNG the most important of the several policies that distinguish notable events from routine news and events.
WP:GNG reads: "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article." I point you to in-depth articles on this terror murder in the
New York Times,
The Daily Telegraph,
Haaretz, and elsewhere. I remind editors raising
WP:NOTNEWS that WP is
WP:NOTCENSORED and
WP:BATTLEGROUND, and that
WP:JUSTDONTLIKEIT is not a policy based argument. An event with this breadth and depth of coverage does not have to demonstrate ongoing impact to be WP notable. Under
WP:EVENTCRIT an event has to meet
WP:INDEPTH, which this event objectively does. Nevertheless, this shooting has had demonstrable impact (in article since the creation) on the Israeli conversation about whether to agree to a prisoner exchange that Hamas is requesting this summer (for the bodies of soldiers, or for the return of a mentally ill Israelis who crossed the border into Gaza). It is argued that since this was one of 6 recent terror murders carried out by convicted terrorists released in the
Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, a fresh exchange endangers the lives of Israelis and is, therefore, bad policy.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 19:24, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
comment While working on another AFD I came across this keep iVote
[1]:
There is, of course, also a clear tradition of keeping ideologically motivated terror attacks as notable.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 19:53, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
You should probably look at where that link goes. It kinda says that basing whether an article should exist because others do is a poor argument. Which is what you are going. nableezy - 22:46, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep As per
WP:GNG. The case received much int'l coverage and over a month later, there are still
articles that mention it. The fact the murderer was released during Gil'ad Shalit exchange, makes this more notable. 06:36, 26 July 2015 (UTC) —
109.64.140.181 (
talk •
contribs) has made
few or no other edits outside this topic.
Delete*, no lasting impact. Wikipedia is not a daily newspaper.
Kierzek (
talk) 21:03, 26 July 2015 (UTC)reply
You're proposing to delete this? Seriously? It's got, like, coverage from a shtload of New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post articles. It's got a whole section of serious-sounding analysis of political impact, and it doesn't take a genius to see why if a couple of guys who go hiking get offed by a terrorist scumbag who was already a convicted terrorist/murder/scumbag doing time until some genius negotiator let him out of jail, that this sort of incident might, just might, tip a political debate about letting more terrorist scumbag murderers out of jail. Oh, you also don't have to be a genius to look at the datelines and see that coverage of this thing continues, or to realize that since they caught the guys who did it there will be a trial(s) and lots more coverage, and more debate about giving get-out-of-jail-free cards to terrorist scumbags KEEP.
SummerSchool55 (
talk) 15:10, 27 July 2015 (UTC) —
SummerSchool55 (
talk •
contribs) has made
few or no other edits outside this topic. reply
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.
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
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was delete. No evidence of longterm importance is presented or accepted (mentions like
this one are prima facie not in-depth discussions); NOTNEWS and NOTMEMORIAL apply.
Drmies (
talk) 03:33, 30 July 2015 (UTC)reply
This is nothing except a memorial article for a non-notable person killed in an (unfortunately) commonplace event. Violates
WP:NOTMEMORIAL as well as
WP:NOTNEWS. Also a fine example of
WP:RECENTISM; within a month or two this event will be almost entirely forgotten. Creator named it "Terrorist Shooting of Danny Gonen", which suggests an improper purpose.
Zerotalk 16:03, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Assertion about article's original name is false.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 20:00, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
I didn't say that it was the original name,
here is where you renamed it. And I'll note your comment "starting article on awful, cold-blooded murder" on your creation edit. It was indeed awful, but that is not and has never been justification for an article.
Zerotalk 00:57, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Indeed, after TheLongTone prodded it for deletion on the NOTNEWS argument I changed the name in the belief that LongTone had mistaken the article for a merely horrific but "routine" criminal shooting, not realizing that it was an act of terrorism. And that others might repeat that error. In fact - at first - I thought that you had made the same mistake when you brought it to AFD.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 14:58, 28 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Nom has clearly failed to perform
WP:BEFORE, I am a major fan of
WP:BEFORE. Editors who perform due diligence as per WP:BEFORE are unlikely to nominate articles that, like this one, cover a topic that received in-depth media coverage, is well-sourced, and is part of a routine Wikipedia practice of having articles that cover episodes of terrorism; recent examples of this policy include
2015 Chattanooga shootings (the article on which I modeled this article and title), and
2015 Boston beheading plot.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 16:20, 23 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete: the snow is falling I PRODed this as
WP:NOTNEWS. PROD removed by article creator who described the PROD as "frivolous". Not so. 13:36, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Keep As per
WP:GNG the most important of the several policies that distinguish notable events from routine news and events.
WP:GNG reads: "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article." I point you to in-depth articles on this terror murder in the
New York Times,
The Daily Telegraph,
Haaretz, and elsewhere. I remind editors raising
WP:NOTNEWS that WP is
WP:NOTCENSORED and
WP:BATTLEGROUND, and that
WP:JUSTDONTLIKEIT is not a policy based argument. An event with this breadth and depth of coverage does not have to demonstrate ongoing impact to be WP notable. Under
WP:EVENTCRIT an event has to meet
WP:INDEPTH, which this event objectively does. Nevertheless, this shooting has had demonstrable impact (in article since the creation) on the Israeli conversation about whether to agree to a prisoner exchange that Hamas is requesting this summer (for the bodies of soldiers, or for the return of a mentally ill Israelis who crossed the border into Gaza). It is argued that since this was one of 6 recent terror murders carried out by convicted terrorists released in the
Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, a fresh exchange endangers the lives of Israelis and is, therefore, bad policy.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 19:24, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
comment While working on another AFD I came across this keep iVote
[1]:
There is, of course, also a clear tradition of keeping ideologically motivated terror attacks as notable.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 19:53, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
You should probably look at where that link goes. It kinda says that basing whether an article should exist because others do is a poor argument. Which is what you are going. nableezy - 22:46, 24 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep As per
WP:GNG. The case received much int'l coverage and over a month later, there are still
articles that mention it. The fact the murderer was released during Gil'ad Shalit exchange, makes this more notable. 06:36, 26 July 2015 (UTC) —
109.64.140.181 (
talk •
contribs) has made
few or no other edits outside this topic.
Delete*, no lasting impact. Wikipedia is not a daily newspaper.
Kierzek (
talk) 21:03, 26 July 2015 (UTC)reply
You're proposing to delete this? Seriously? It's got, like, coverage from a shtload of New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post articles. It's got a whole section of serious-sounding analysis of political impact, and it doesn't take a genius to see why if a couple of guys who go hiking get offed by a terrorist scumbag who was already a convicted terrorist/murder/scumbag doing time until some genius negotiator let him out of jail, that this sort of incident might, just might, tip a political debate about letting more terrorist scumbag murderers out of jail. Oh, you also don't have to be a genius to look at the datelines and see that coverage of this thing continues, or to realize that since they caught the guys who did it there will be a trial(s) and lots more coverage, and more debate about giving get-out-of-jail-free cards to terrorist scumbags KEEP.
SummerSchool55 (
talk) 15:10, 27 July 2015 (UTC) —
SummerSchool55 (
talk •
contribs) has made
few or no other edits outside this topic. reply
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.