Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007 UK terrorist incidents

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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. John254 02:34, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 UK terrorist incidents

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The article does not have the potential to provide sufficient significant information not already provided either on 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack,on 2007 London car bombs or on other subsequent pages related to future terrorist attacks. Tomj 14:43, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Disambiguatify (if that's a word) to an article just containing links to the London and Glasgow incidents. The information is covered in greater detail in the individual articles, but I can see the value of this as a dab page as a possible search term. ~Matticus TC 15:12, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep (as creator). It covers the terrorist incidents in 2007, not necessarily just the two presently specified, and takes an overview of events. Further, even if the information can be dug out of the individual articles it is quite normal to have a front-end pulling together common themes and key points. There is no failure of WP policies, it is sourced and informative and will be helpful to the casual reader who doesn't want to flog through detailed articles on specific incidents to get the big picture of what has been happening in the year. A final point, it has just been decided not to merge the two incident articles, which provides an even clearer role for this one in outlining common and linked features, for example the UK raising the threat level to 'critical', not readily coverable in the incident articles so, contrary to what the nominator has asserted, there is plainly "potential to provide sufficient significant information not already provided". TerriersFan 15:38, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per User:TerriersFan Taprobanus 16:27, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I believe that this page's existence could be justified if there were more incidents to report - but we're only halfway through the year. Perhaps in January 2008 the picture on if this page is needed or not will be more clear. I, for one, hope that it isn't! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.193.38.39 (talk • contribs)
  • Keep for now Deciding on what to merge or delete in the middle of active updating is probably not appropriate--whatever is done has a good chance of being wrong. The anon above has the right idea. DGG 19:28, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep there is much potential use for a page summarising everything and treating the two events, and anything subsequent, as a whole, as well as separate articles going into detail. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 20:15, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per TerriersFan. These two incidents (and any more that may follow) are (and would be), by and large, viewed as one. We can keep the other pages, but we should also have one, over-arching page on the whole episode. -- Thesocialistesq/M.lesocialiste 20:44, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Blood Red Sandman and the author creator.--JForget 22:38, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Glasgow and London were part of one plot, so they should have a combined article. On the other hand the two events were each significant in the history of the relevant city, so they should also have separate articles. The current arrangement is therefore just as it should be. Greg Grahame 12:45, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep the authorities contend that the plots were related, the participants have not denied that as far as I have seen, so we can take that position because RSes support it and those in the best position to refute it haven't. Carlossuarez46 17:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nomination. Merely regurgitates information on the two separate articles. Unless, God forbid, any other incidents were to happen over the course of the year I can't really see any point in keeping this.GiollaUidir 15:34, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - It does not 'regurgitate information'. The 'forward look' section is not in the separate articles nor is one of the 'Warnings' nor the 'Threat level'. Where there is common material it is structured here in a manner so that readers who do not wish to excavate from two separate articles get a clear overview. TerriersFan 17:23, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - I have now added 'Plot to behead a British Muslim soldier' and '2007 United Kingdom letter bombs' since they seem relevant. However, I am not committed to these additions and I welcome views, on the article talk page, on their suitability and whether they enhance or detract from the article. TerriersFan 18:24, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep As per above --SkyWalker 17:54, 7 July 2007 (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.