Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saddam Hussein refuses to sell out Iraq

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 of the debate was delete. Rob e rt ^{T | @ | C} 01:03, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Saddam Hussein refuses to sell out Iraq[edit]

It should be obvious to anyone familiar with Rumsfeld's speaking style and Saddam's character that this is fiction.

Delete. Gazpacho 22:48, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I don't know anything about Rumsfeld's speaking style nor Saddam's character but I do know that this article was written in easily readable English and that sources in a foreign language were used... not verifiable. Deskana 22:56, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - not encyclopedic as standalone article even if it's verifiable (ext links are Arabic). If verifiable, include reference/summary in appropriate articles. Rd232 ^talk 23:19, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - this is unverifiable and propaganda. Not to mention that a verbatim transcript from the paper would be copyviol. The mention of the article might be relevant in either the insurgency Sadaam articles but I leave that to the interested editor. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 23:29, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, for many of the reasons above. PJM 23:36, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, the characterizations themselves make this deletable (mockingly?) User:Zoe|^(talk) 23:37, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, no way in hell this conversation ever took place.--csloat 00:14, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this hoax. Carioca 01:43, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; preposterous nonsense; obvious hoax. MCB 06:53, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the status of this as a hoax could be characterised as a "Known Known". Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 08:19, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Mention of this article, and questions of the authenticity of its information, are fine for inclusion in Wikipedia. But Wikipedia isn't for just copying (either verbatim or through translation) a text from elsewhere and pasting it in and calling it a Wikipedia article—plus, there are questions of copyright violation. I personally doubted the whole thing; but my doubts about the truth of an article aren't reason enough: the nature of what a Wikipedia article should be, and questions of copyright violation, are exactly enough. President Lethe 16:01, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not that I consider this article to be any good, or that I am not in support of its deletion, but the fact that a source is not written in English doesn't itself make it less reliable. A majority of the people on this planet doesn't speak English, that doesn't make them untrustworthy. That said, I'm in support of its deletion for the reason that the sources seem to be of dubious accuracy, but that does not have anything to do with the fact that I can not read the language in which it is written. Have a look here. Kdehl 20:33, 16 November 2005 (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.