Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/September 2009 attacks on Indians in Australia

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The result was delete. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:36, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

September 2009 attacks on Indians in Australia

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Non-notable fight of no historical consequence YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:19, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, contrary to the title, it was one fight. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 05:20, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to be a daft and poorly sourced content fork of 2009_attacks_on_Indian_students_in_Australia which is the appropriate article for Australian racial violence towards Indians in Australia. Fifelfoo (talk) 05:24, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like not so much a content fork as just an extension which has been put into its own article for no apparent reason. Merge and redirect to 2009 attacks on Indian students in Australia, it probably justifies a single paragraph in the "Attacks" section of that article. --Stormie (talk) 05:27, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing says that the victims are students YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 05:32, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, the article in question does state that two of the three victims were students; however, reading all the references provided, this assertion is completely unsupported, no mention is made in any of the news reports of them being students. Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. --Stormie (talk) 05:45, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete; unsalvageably biased. Hesperian 05:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - bearing in mind WP:CRYSTAL and WP:NOTNEWS. It may be that these events will prove to be notable and deserve encyclopaedic coverage, but at this stage that's not established; the cited sources appear to be the result of a slow day in the Indian news. Possibly the article creator could re-create the article at a later date with the benefit of perspective, and establish why this event will continue to be notable in Setember 2010 and beyond? - DustFormsWords (talk) 06:32, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTNEWS and as an irremediable POV pushing article. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 06:54, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. -- -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 06:54, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 07:03, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete - POV pushing Aaroncrick (talk) 07:41, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Non-notable. - Shiftchange (talk) 10:20, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Single incident, biased, etc., per everyone else. (The creator's edit history exhibits some rather familiar ducklike behaviour....) Priyanath ^talk 16:34, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to 2009 attacks on Indian students in Australia. The incident, by itself, is non-notable (or "news" at best), and is already covered in the larger article. We may need to redirect, rather than delete though since content from this article was merged into 2009 attacks on Indian students in Australia]. Abecedare (talk) 23:55, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to 2009 attacks on Indian students in Australia - normally this would be non-notable as a single incident, but given that it may or may not be part of a larger pattern, it's worth at least keeping a redirect around and mentioning it in the larger article. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 11:30, 24 September 2009 (UTC).[reply]
Delete for the reasons above. Don't redirect, as it was previously redirected and re-opened as its own article (although redirect would be the next best option to delete). --Merbabu (talk) 01:51, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Mentioned (Merged) by me in 2009 attacks on Indian students in Australia.--Redtigerxyz ^Talk 14:15, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect if content from this article was merged to 2009 attacks on Indian students in Australia this article should not be deleted based on wikipedias copyright rules/requirements about preserving history. This article should not be kept as is (said well above) so the only option is redirect. Duffbeerforme (talk) 12:17, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually blanking maybe an option, but a fairly useless option here. Duffbeerforme (talk) 12:20, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Protect the redirect to stop what Merbabu is talking about. Duffbeerforme (talk) 12:23, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is an alternative - undo the merge and remove that from the history of the article. Then a redirect wouldn't be necessary. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 18:48, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Per WP:NOTNEWS and POV, besides the fact this was a lone incident, and not a series of attacks.--LAA Fan^sign _review 04:45, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete with fire, on similar grounds as Merbabu. Orderinchaos 03:25, 1 October 2009 (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.