- Kurdish-Israeli relations (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (restore|cache|AfD)
Being bold as an administrator is one thing. But consensus on this article was completely ignored. There was not one person calling for a delete of the page, and the reasons for keep were equally as sound as the reasons for delete. I'm all administrators being bold with this kind of thing, but if we're going to be saying delete when every single person on the page is calling for a keep, then we might as well throw AFD out the window and just have admins press the delete button. To address the concerns:
- There were 4 people calling for keep, using sound policy arguments.
- There was one person with a comment implying what several other people expressed: that the article itself was worthy of inclusion, and that at worst the title should change.
- Deletion was based off previous discussion, with the idea that the two were similar. They are, but the reasons calling for delete in that discussion had nothing to do with the current discussion.
In short, it is the administrators responsibility to establish consensus and work according to it, with leeway to ignore arguments against policy. It is not, however, the responsibility of an administrator to ignore consensus altogether in a discussion. If an admin feels this strongly and there is no consensus, s/he should simply add his comment to the page. This was a faulty close of a discussion, which at most should have been closed as no consensus, and reeks of administartor activism. 64.178.96.168 18:58, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
- overturn elaborate rationale given, but basically he decided to agree with one sole person and based on the result of one prior related deletion. Admin should have joined the argument instead, and let somebody else close. DGG (talk) 19:11, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
- Keep deleted. Some of the arguments on the nom were blant personal attacks aimed at the nominator and hence have very little value.
- A-B relations are reserved for diplomatic relations. This is the common practice to date. The article was "inventing" a relationship between a country (political entity) and ethnicity (a cultural entity) in an WP:OR manner. The article was even synthesizing a relationship based on the interpretation of the bible by the articles author. There isn't a single example of such an "ethnicity-country relationship" article anywhere on wikipedia and this is not the point of "A-B relations" articles. At least two other articles (Kurdish-Chinese relations and Kurdish-Italian relations) were deleted over similar concerns: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kurdish-Chinese relations. I do not see any argument that overides that past consensus. WP:NOT#DEMOCRACY. It is the weight of the arguments that count. Some of the arguments on this nom were based on WP:OR or personal opinions and has very little value and do not have much weight. This article and those two has been written by same person. -- Cat chi? 21:06, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse deletion The AFD devolved into a bit of a slap at the nominator. Although I disagree with White Cat about 99% of the time on things Kurdish and Turkish, this time he is right. We have Turkish-israeli relations which is not the relationship between the Turkish & Israeli people, but the diplomatic relations between their respective governments - if this were not the case we could have Californian-Japanese relations, Austrian-Bavarian relations, Washingtonian-British Columbian relations and Sicilian-New Yorker relations and heck why not Angelino-Mexican relations or Chicagoan-Warsawan relations for which much could probably written (or synthesized). Kurdistan has no sovereign government to date - to the best information I have seen the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq has not obtained recognition of its sovereignty by any other state and has no accredited diplomats posted to any other state and has no diplomatic relations independent of those of Iraq. Let's evaluate the article, not the nominator. Carlossuarez46 21:45, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
- I do want to add that Turkish-Israeli relations redirects to Turkey-Israel relations -- Cat chi? 22:04, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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- As the deleting admin, I based my decision on a few facts: The "A-B relations" article are about diplomatic relations between countries. The previous AFD was a valid deletion (two articles were deleted, not just one), this article is really no different. Regrettably, the closing admin didn't give a reason as to why they deleted, which is a pity. However, I'm a bit unclear what policy was invoked in the arguments on this AFD. There were most definitely some good arguments on the "keep" side of things, but there were even better counter arguments made. AFD isn't a vote, and deleting admins must take into account the keep and delete reasonings. In this case, the keep reasons were reasonably weak, and the delete reasons were strong. I'd like to note that I have no real opinion one way or another of Kurdish/Israeli topics, and believe that the DRV nominator should assume good faith - there was no "admin activism" here. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:29, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
- While I have no strong opinion on the article itself, it does seem unfortunate that it was deleted without any "delete" support. The logic about "country - country" also seems flawed - "IBM Microsoft relations" or "GM Ford relations" would beoth be significant topics, let alone "IRA UK relations" or "NATO Warsaw Pact relations". On the DRV level I would perhaps suggest Relist and on the AfD level merge and redirect seems to be the obvious course if there's insufficient notable sourced material. Rich Farmbrough, 11:18 2 October 2007 (GMT).
- And incidentally the "slap at the nom", while unfortunate, should not inform our discussion here. Rich Farmbrough, 11:20 2 October 2007 (GMT).
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- If you are referring to the AFD, then I can assure you I didn't base my decision on that. - Ta bu shi da yu 15:44, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
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- Response to Rich Farmbrough, perhaps a better titling of all the international ones would be "A-B diplomatic relations" where A & B are county names rather than adjectival forms which can be ambiguous. Then we can have the any notable "relations" that aren't diplomatic state-to-state but of the GM Ford, people-to-people, what not without "diplomatic" so that Kurdish-Israeli relations would be relations between Kurdish people & Israeli people, and if sources for that can be found and not synthesize an article from nothing. Carlossuarez46 21:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn and relist. Flawed closure with a rationale based in no policy. I don't share the presumption that "X-Y relations" articles must necessarily be between two sovereign states, especially in such an ambiguous case as Kurdistan (which for all intents and purposes was sovereign between the two wars). In any event, whether we have such an article should be determined at least in part by WP:N. I would be more willing to back a better-sourced article; this one is weaker than it need be. There are sources, but much of that is itself speculative, so a strongly-grounded article may well be impossible. Nevertheless, it deserves an AFD on the merits. --Dhartung | Talk 12:13, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
- It was defacto semi-sovereign state, yes. There were two factions fighting for power all the time. in the region now known as Iraqi Kurdistan. The scope of the article went beyond that. This article was using the bible as a source to establish Israeli Kurdish relations. It talked about Kurds blaming the capture of the PKK leader to Israel and etc. -- Cat chi? 03:29, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
- Relist. While I sympathize with the closer's sentiment (and in fact largely agree with the closure) the way in which it was done was just not right - it is impossible to argue that the consensus of the debate was to delete. This is one of those cases where the closer would have been better off adding the opinion to delete to the debate rather than closing it as such. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 16:02, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse closure. Closer is not obligated to ignore policy just because everyone else did. From reading the debate, it appears some editors are under the impression that "Kurdistan" is a sovereign entity with diplomatic relations, which is emphatically not the case. Mackensen (talk) 20:30, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn - The closer's opinion that "relations articles are clearly only for country-to-country diplomatic relations" fails to account for the fact that a variety of reliable source material specifically uses "Kurdish - Israeli relations" as topic for their writing. The book After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?: My Encounters With Kurdistan addresses Kurdish-Israeli relations in detail. The 10th Issue of Al-Fursan Magazine (October 2006) has a three-page article describing the historical relations between the Kurds and Israel. The article is entitled "The Kurdish-Israeli Relations: Their Development, Forms, and Objectives." Nabaz Goran wrote about Kurdish - Israeli relations for the third time in a February 14, 2007 article entitled "Back to the original relations, back to the Israeli relations" and published by the Iraqi Kurdistan National Democratic Union newspaper Midya. Also, Google books provides some hits. The closer's use of original research to draw the closing statement is not an appropriate close. Moreover, the consensus clearly agreed and established that the topic Kurdish - Israeli relations meets WP:N. -- Jreferee t/c 02:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
- Israel and Kurdistan cannot have diplomatic relations as Israel does not recognize any independent Kurdistan. No dependent entity can have diplomatic relations. The scope of "Iraqi Kurdistan National Democratic Union" only extends to the KRG and not to Turkey, Syria, Israel, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and a dozen other countries where Kurdish people also live. It is WP:OR to establish such relationships among ethnicities. -- Cat chi? 03:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
- Reverse per Jreferee. Closer completely ignored consensus and a multitude of evidence contrary to his views. I'm going to bite my tongue and assume good faith here and not say that it was closed purely out of spite and as a knee-jerk reaction to some borderline comments by a few Keep'ers; but it was a bad decision in any case and warrants reversal. DEVS EX MACINA pray 04:10, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn - when the comments of those contributing to the debate are 100% in favour of keeping, closing as a delete because you personally think it should be deleted is ludicrous. TBSDY may have been better off participating in the discussion by writing a cogent argument for deletion and letting someone neutral close it - if his argument had been strong enough, it may have been deleted anyway. Neil ム 11:15, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not a democracy. AFD isnt a vote. It is the weight of the comment that counts. -- Cat chi? 03:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn. The reasoning the closer used to go against consensus is faulty as even the nominator eventually acknowledged that "A-B Relations" articles are not necessarily for countries alone. The nominator said that a PKK-Hezbollah relations article would be OK. Pocopocopocopoco 00:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
- Yes. Hezbollah is an organization not an ethnicity. Kurdish is an ethnicity not an organization. -- Cat chi? 12:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
- Kurds are also a people, and it seems arbitrary to me that you just want to exclude peoples from "A-B relations" but everything else is OK. Nonetheless, my original point stands that the closers reasoning for going against consenses is faulty as his reasoning was that "A-B relations" should be for countries alone. Pocopocopocopoco 14:43, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
- Keep deleted. This is an impossible article. If it were more specific - like, a certain Kurdish party and group with the current state of Israel, rather than some Biblical story, it might be different. As it is, it has no purpose being here. It also read more like a history article than a relations article. --Golbez 11:15, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- Relist I see no clear consensus from the AfD. GDonato (talk) 21:38, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- Comment First I have suggestions to the nominator here and to the closing admin. The nominator here (64.178...) should, as a courtesy to us, sign in with his/her account (User:Part Deux ?), as it is a library anon, though this does not affect this deletion review. Also the closing admin should be more careful while concluding future AFDs. I am in principle against closing an AFD with a comment that is pretty much like a vote, which might be the case here; closing admin even took part in the discussion. I think that we should pay attention to AFD's involving Cat chi, also as there are people attacking him. Let me list the situation with the keep vote arguments:
- Pocopocopocopoco: countered well by nom
- Evil Spartan: attack on nom, and a not so relevant argument
- VartanM: attack on nom, not so relevant argument
- Victor falk: countered well by nom
- No one countered nom's arguments which seem to be quite valid. I agree with the conclusion, but I would have liked it more, if the closing admin did not take part in the discussion. DenizTC 11:40, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
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