Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/15 February 2021 Addi Geba massacre

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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:46, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

15 February 2021 Addi Geba massacre

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I am also nominating the following related pages:

Four standalone articles which do not pass WP:NEVENT or WP:GNG, primarily because the events cannot be verified with any reliable sources. These 4 articles are part of a series of 106 almost-identical articles created by a now-blocked sockpuppet and were the subject of a prior AfD which was closed as "procedural keep" because 106 articles were too many bundled together for other editors to be able to effectively evaluate them in a single AfD. (43 of the original 106 have since been deleted, and another 28 turned into redirects.)

These are unnecessary articles of alleged events sourced identically to each other. The first three sources include: (1) an article posted on an advocacy blog website tghat.com (self-published), (2) a victim list spreadsheet at the end of a document self-published on ResearchGate, and (3) an AP News article which mentions only one of these four locations but has no dates nor casualty count nor any specific 'massacre' event to corroborate any of these 4 Wikipedia articles (doesn't verify). The other 6 citations (World Radio, EuroNews, CBC, Guardian, France24, DW) are WP:COATRACK because none of them mention these events at all, and were copypasta'd to each article to fill them out and make them appear notable. Platonk (talk) 03:45, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethiopia-related deletion discussions. Platonk (talk) 03:45, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and my comments at the 106 article AFD. User:力 (powera, π, ν) 04:18, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Articles fail to meet WP:GNG. Ue3lman (talk) 04:53, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:45, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 05:45, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete per nom and previous AFDs. Mztourist (talk) 06:07, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
redirect to a more general article on the war. There is a civil war in progress in Ethiopia, in which some very unpleasant events (to say the least) are said to have taken place. We need one article on that war, or a series on different stages of it, with one overall outline article, not a series of them on individual events however atrocious. This series of massacre articles should not be allowed to remain as individual articles. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:23, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Peterkingiron: There are already such articles as you suggest (see this navbar). The problem with these 106 'massacre' articles is that they were sourced by the editor's own self-published off-Wikipedia documents. He also invented these massacre titles; they are not used by the general media. If the media had been using the term that matches this article title, then I would have performed a blank-and-redirect rather than AfD. Prior to nominating any (or several) of these 106 articles for deletion, I will have already checked and updated Timeline of the Tigray War and Casualties of the Tigray War, which is where the information should have gone in the first place, not a standalone article. If there are no reliable sources for the event, then you probably won't see them mentioned in those two articles. Platonk (talk) 04:36, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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