Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DNC imam controversy

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. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DNC imam controversy

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As a member of the evil godless liberal Muslim atheist Democrats of Wikipedia that swear there is no God and Muhammad is his prophet, I'm afraid I must nominate this article for deletion. I simply can't stand our evil schemes being revealed. Also, this is more appropriate for Wikinews anyway as this is an utterly minor non-incident. A local Imam prayed at a Democratic meeting; hardly any different than your average Christian minister with some perhaps odd views praying at a Republican meeting. This fails the 10 day test, and seems to have already blown over.

Though it doesn't technically impact on notability, I'd also point out that all the sources are from the tabloid wing of the conservatives rather than the intellectual side, which leads to POV/reliability concerns. Most of the G News articles seem to be copies of one Debbie Schlussel editorial.

(By the way, feel free to discount my personal vote, but I hope that merely bringing this page to other's attention should be sufficient. For those curious as to how come a one-edit account knows Wikipedia policy, I'm friends with another Wikipedian and just haven't edited much myself...) Quiet Isomorph 05:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, unencyclopedic POV. szyslak (t, c) 06:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, blatant NPOV violation. Cedlaod 07:57, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. The nom, with tongue firmly in cheek, kinda sez it all. --Dennisthe2 11:02, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per excellent nomination, non-notable news event of no encyclopedic value whatsoever. Moreschi ^{Request a recording?} 11:36, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
• Move or Delete to Al-Husainy if he passes notability since the article is about him, otherwise delete. Koweja 22:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep the new name is much more appropriate, and he seems notable. Koweja 03:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
• merge or delete I have a problem with teh "DNC" being in the title. That seems to be questionable to me.--Sefringle 00:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
• comment looking at google for Al-Husainy with keywords related to the dnc thing removed [1] seems to come up with some stuff that I'd like to make an article out of. I'm wondering if we could move this article to Husham Al-Husainy, so we don't loose the edit history or whatever. Here is a sketch of what the article would look like over there: User:Smmurphy/Husham Al-Husainy (POV issues still abound in the dnc section, which is unchanged). I realize it still borders on nn, but I like its chances there much better than here. Smmurphy^(Talk) 21:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the page to Husham Al-Husainy, and redirected the afd for that page to this article. I'm not sure what people think about the new article, its still borderline, but Al-Husainy is often interviewed by national news sources independent of this controversy, so I think it passes WP:BIO. Smmurphy^(Talk) 02:53, 22 February 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.