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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 keep. Going with the keeps here - appears to be getting lasting, international coverage. If you wish to propose merges, please do so at the appropriate article talk pages.

Thank you everyone for participating and assuming good faith. If you disagree with this decision, please take your objections and concerns to Deletion Review instead of my talk page. Thanks again and happy holidays! Missvain (talk) 23:46, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)
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WP:NOTNEWS,WP:ROUTINE,WP:NOTMEMORIAL , not WP:PERSISTENT, not WP:DIVERSE, one of many violent incidents of the conflict. Despite the place name in the title it is about the stabbing of a not WP:NOTABLE person. Coverage mainly on the day. Include in an appropriate list. Selfstudier (talk) 13:58, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, a classic case of forum shopping - they didn't get their way in the talk page discussion, so took it to AfD on spurious grounds. Inf-in MD (talk) 20:31, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It isnt spurious, this article fails NOTNEWS. That a set of users are dedicated to in addition to violating our NOT policy also insist on violating our NPOV policy is not relevant to the AFD. Please dont disrupt the AFD further. Thanks in advance. nableezy - 21:07, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It's spurious, and you don't understand WP:NEWS, either. Inf-in MD (talk) 22:32, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It would be good if editors would address the reasons for deletion, not kitchen sinks, allegations of edit warring, forum shopping and other irrelevancies.Selfstudier (talk) 22:11, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The spurious reasons were addressed - there is ongoing coverage, 8 years on, from multiple international outlets, and a clear indication of lasting impact. Inf-in MD (talk) 22:32, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The fact that it spawned a series of retaliatory attacks and that an illegal settlement was named after the victim blows any WP:NOTNEWS argument to shreds. This very clearly meets WP:NEVENT. Mlb96 (talk) 22:28, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge into Evyatar. It is being claimed here that the naming of Evyatar after the victim supports the notability of the topic. That is already at Evyatar, but what is there could be expanded by another one or two sentences and that would be more than sufficient coverage of this everyday event. Zerotalk 01:25, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per Zero. Haaretz reported the other day 18 cases of Palestinians going about their business, smoking a cigarette, talking to a friend, etc. in no hostile context, who have been picked off by Israeli snipers just this year, with no explanation forthcoming. These killings are routine on the West Bank, but a number of editors leap to memorialize the (comparatively) rare cases where an Israeli is the victim.(WP:Systemic bias) One could, on the strength of this precedent, make an article on each Palestinian case as well, (adding as here how acquaintances thought the killed person was a nice guy etc) because they are widely reported. What was done was to note each incident in two lines in the relative village articles (see the entry for 7 murdered by Israeli snipers at Beita, Nablus over recent months, for example), as should be done here. Nishidani (talk) 10:14, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    There is no WP:DIVERSE coverage for those events. Shrike (talk) 10:32, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Nope. This article was created by an IP edit warrior on the same day as the incident itself, (just as I, were I to mimic this lamentable memorialization of victims on one side of the ethnic divide, could have done with the 18 Palestinian murders) and reportage since then has been almost zero, except as an occasional allusion, as editors noted above. The rules are being once more violated in favour of a Palestinians =terrorism promo game. Nishidani (talk) 10:41, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes there is. Example, killing of Mohammed Daadas on 5 November, which according to all the above should automatically have an article and has way more diverse international coverage than this article ever had:
A Rock Hit an Israeli Soldier. He Responded by Shooting at the Palestinian Protesters, Killing a Boy
Palestinians: 13-year-old dies by Israeli fire in West Bank
Israel troops kill teen in West Bank: Palestinian ministry
EU calls for investigation into murder of Palestinian teen
UNRWA is gravely concerned by the killing of a Palestine refugee child by Israeli live fire and plenty more besides these. In general, I have tended not to concern myself with these sort of events on the same grounds I argue for deletion here but since they are becoming more and more common (In 2021, the ISF killed 69 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including 27 refugees and 16 children by live ammunition) and noting the kind of argumentation being put forward here (and in other deletion discussions of similar material), I think I may well start putting up such articles.Selfstudier (talk) 10:46, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I take that as ironical? There may indeed be a case for a general article on the regular IDF practice of killing unarmed Palestinian civilians pour encourager les autres, but we should rule out any 'retaliatory' mimicry of what policy decries, however much it is abused by articles like this one. I did it once, alerting beforehand an excellent admin, stating that my purpose was to write an article on one such IDF murder that would be immediately put up for deletion, in response to an article describing a parallel i ncident in which an Israeli was killed (which was under AfD discussion), stating that I wanted to verify how many 'voters' for 'keep' for the Israeli victim article would vote for 'delete' for the Palestinian victim article. H e thought this dishonest. I thought it was the only scientific way to show how bias exists in the group of editors who always show up with a lockstep 'keep' argument in this victim memorialization genre. I never repeated the experiment, having made my point.Nishidani (talk) 14:29, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In part, some of these killings are a bit beyond, so maybe some retaliatory mimicry is in order. The 69 is already up to 76 per https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties Also see 2021 Jerusalem shooting where the term "mass shooting" is being abused.Selfstudier (talk) 14:57, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
One leads by example, not by mimicking practices we, in conformity with Wikipedia's rules on NOTNEWS and Memorial stubs, deplore. The only reason such articles exist is that the AfD usually has the same people voting for their retention. The 2021 Jerusalem shooting article should be up for deletion as well. Nishidani (talk) 15:43, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
WP:OTHERSTUFF. Create that article if you think it meets notability requirements. Mlb96 (talk) 18:06, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[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.