Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Siege of Maarat al-Numaan

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The result was delete. No prejudice against recreation of the title as a redirect to the 1906 siege The Bushranger _{One ping only} 23:35, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Siege of Maarat al-Numaan[edit]

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Simply put the article is in violation of three Wiki guidelines. The main is Wikipedia:Verifiability. The article has no sources to back-up the claims in it. Second. It does not fulfill the criteria for Wikipedia:Notability. Except for one sentence The Siege of Maarat al-Numaan was part of the 2011–2012 Syrian uprising. the article has nothing to say to the Wikipedia readers. Third, given no sources are provided for the article it could also be considered in violation of Wikipedia:No original research. I think that says it all. Considering the event, if it even happened, was not followed in the mainstream media, if someone manages to get a source on it, it will still be in violation of the Notability act, thus in that case it would be more preferable to merge what few sentences there are to the Timeline article instead of leaving a fork article like this. Thank you! EkoGraf (talk) 00:21, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Syria-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:39, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:39, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:40, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Siege of Ma'arra, which refers a very notable siege of Maarat al-Numaan in 1096. I can't find evidence that this is a notable event, a search of Gnews archives verifies that a siege took place, one source mentions it: [1]. One sentence in one source does not a notable topic make. All mergable content is already contained in Timeline of the 2011–2012 Syrian uprising (May–August 2011). Quasihuman (talk • contribs) 12:55, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No references, nothing to talk about. EllsworthSK (talk) 21:03, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 03:43, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I checked if major material was removed as you say Anarchangel. It seems all of what was removed was unsourced info which the removing editor had all right to delete. Wikipedia is based on Verifibility. EkoGraf (talk) 13:39, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Nothing that can't be addressed in Syrian uprising (2011–present) if deemed noteworthy. We don't need to fork every little thing about a protest movement. Tarc (talk) 14:50, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, No reliable sources found to indicate an event, if there really is one, occurred or that if the event occurred that it is notable.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:17, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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