Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sadr City Massacre

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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 Redirect. Spartaz Humbug! 18:45, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sadr City Massacre

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A google search finds no sources for such an event (excluding the World Socialist Website) New England Review Me!/Go Red Sox! 18:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Redirect The sad thing is that searching for this title on Google returns so many possible different acts, however searching by date on Wikinews throws up this article Sadr City suicide bomber uses fruit truck to kill 66 on market dayone of its sources has since become defunct but these two are still up at Forbes and San Fransisco Chronicle. Using the details from these two sources one can find the following on the BBC, and on Google, the top result is 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing.
So the best thing to do is to redirect to this article.KTo288 20:09, 26 August 2007 (UTC)KTo288 20:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)KTo288 20:13, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Nothing to merge. Then redirect to 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing as "massacre" is a plausible (if awkward) search term. --Dhartung | Talk 22:18, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Thanks Dhartung for the reminder about other readers, altough from the date we can be sure 1 July 2006 Sadr City bombing is what is intended in this article, there is also 23 November 2006 Sadr City bombings, other events before that might be construed as "massacres" and unfortunately there may be future similar events, we can't be sure which a reader is looking for. I suggest we create a disambiguation page populated by the above mentioned Sadr City bombing articles, to which can be added to later, and make the redirect to this new disambiguation page. (I would suggest making this page the disambiguation but "massacre" is rather to loaded a word). KTo288 09:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of News-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 18:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iraq-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 18:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect When I created this article, there were no others ones talking about Sadr City massacres. And I think that massacre as the ideal term. There are articles calling Palestinian suicide bombings are massacres so why don't we call Al-Qaida terror bombings the same thing? Robin Hood 1212 19:08, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
  • DAB Clearly there is a need for readers to be able to find the correct article(s). Sheffield Steeltalkersstalkers 21:58, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
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