Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Makurdi kidnapping

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The result was merge to Kidnapping in Nigeria. (non-admin closure) Ashleyyoursmile! 06:50, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Makurdi kidnapping

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Per WP:NOTNEWS and WP:DELAY, was draftied to let the story develop some days but the creator confuses Wikipedia with a newspaper, pointing me to WP:RAPID instead of delaying the creation and now arguments that the "standard current event" protection will protect the article from deletion CommanderWaterford (talk) 22:12, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. CommanderWaterford (talk) 22:12, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions. CommanderWaterford (talk) 22:12, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

• Keep - 1. The Nigerian school kidnapping series, this is the 5th this year and the first four all have articles. 2. Per Sources like the BBC and The Guardian, which are international RS.

Also, what of the original nomination reasoning is actually about the article? Elijahandskip (talk) 22:29, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

P.S. Noticed he mentioned the current event protection. This article did not have any in-line about that. Never got to add the in-line due to the WP:RAPID afd of the article. Elijahandskip (talk) 22:39, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

I am changing my !vote to Merge based on what Fram said below. Elijahandskip (talk) 10:42, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

• Comment here is a list of the article "series" Kagara kidnapping, Zamfara kidnapping - ITN, Afaka kidnapping, Greenfield University kidnapping - a few days ago. Elijahandskip (talk) 22:33, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 22:42, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

• Merge to Kidnapping in Nigeria, which should be rewritten to make it a comprehensive and correct article about the phenomenon. These things happen way too frequently, and the Makurdi one is a small-scale one: having some information grouped in a central article, with separate articles for the major abductions and sections in the main article for the smaller ones, will be a lot more informative and comprehensive. Fram (talk) 07:11, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

• Comment to CommanderWaterford (Other editors, please ignore this. I asked a question to CommanderWaterford on his talk page and he firmly told me to put my main question here...I don't think this is the right place, but he wanted it here.)

@CommanderWaterford:, I wanted to discuss with you about your view of WP:NOTNEWS. Some of your latest edits make me think you are mis-interpreting what it means. You were a 'lone wolf' in the recent afd of Rambouillet knife attack...I am excluding the nominator as his comment was a real WP:NOTNEWS that was fixed. You also nominated for afd the Virar hospital fire. You aren't alone in wanting it deleted (1 other person), and since the AFD isn't concluded yet, I can only say what I see, and at a quick glance, it will probably be a keep. You also nominated this for deletion and on my talk page said WP:NOTNEWS, however, you really didn't give a deletion reason as to why WP:NOTNEWS applies to make the event not notable. This was all in the last few days. I more of wanted to hear your opinion of what WP:NOTNEWS means, since you seem to believe a terrorist attack, hospital fire, & a school kidnapping are completely not notable for Wikipedia. (For other editors, please don't comment to me or CommanderWaterford about this. I asked him on his talk page [1] about if he would be willing to talk to me 1 on 1 and he basically said put it in the AFD...so I am...) Elijahandskip (talk) 01:05, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

• Merge per Fram; should probably also delete Madurai Kidnapping and Makurai kidnapping since they were complete misnomers and couldn't conceivably cause anything except confusion – is that something we can clean up right here, or should someone take them to RfD? AngryHarpy‍^talk 16:00, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Those previous titles should be deleted, because they're wrong names rather than plausible search terms. This article was created when it wasn't known how many victims there were. If this kidnapping is insufficiently notable for an article, it should be merged into Kidnapping in Nigeria. Jim Michael (talk) 16:10, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

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.