Talk:Drop weapon

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 24 February 2008. The result of the discussion was Keep.

[edit] Unencyclopedic template

How is this page "unencyclopedic?" I personally interviewed people involved and took direct quotes from testimony from the trial as well as direct quotes from other articles regarding this matter. Angrycitizen (talk) 20:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Angrycitizen. If you click on the word unencyclopedic in the warning box on the article page you get taken to a policy page of Wikipedia. There are a number of entries on that page that are applicable to Drop weapon.
  • Original research -- your comment above about personal interviews is a red flag
  • Journalism -- Drop weapon seems to me more like journalism than an encyclopedia entry
  • Soapbox -- the article in its current state has the feel of a soapbox article
Additionally, there are no in-line citations which makes it difficult to verify the facts. I also wonder whether this subject requires its own article or whether it should be a "Drop weapon controversy" section in a larger "Iraq war" article. Please also understand that adding the "unencyclopedic" tag wasn't meant as a personal affront to you, I was just trying to get the article categorized properly so that other editors would know to work on it. —Noah 21:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)