Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Man Sentenced for Threatening Illinois Mosque

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.

Man Sentenced for Threatening Illinois Mosque

Man Sentenced for Threatening Illinois Mosque (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log) • Afd statistics

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

I'm a little on the fence about this one. This article seems to violate

• Delete This is a general news headline that is not encylcopedic. (Unless the author means 'Man' as in 'Mankind'?). Neither the event nor the man nor the mosque appear to be notable. Clovis Sangrail (talk) 07:44, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete - blatant plagarism - the article is nothing but a cut-and-paste from the DOJ news release, with a few words cut-moved-and-pasted to make it read ever so slightly different. Not a speedyable copyvio - I think - given that the source is a government press release, but... -
  Flank speed 08:51, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]

(also, fails

Flank speed 08:58, 1 December 2010 (UTC))[reply

]

• Strong Delete A clumsy word-by-word reworking of the DOJ article that functions as its source. Also:
  WP:ONEEVENT -- I mean, look at the article title. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 09:21, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete
  WP:NOTNEWS are so often misused and misinterpreted, but here is a crystal clear example of the type of article it seeks to prevent. One question though, is Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center notable enough for it's own article? (I honestly don't know.) If so, I think it should be created and a sentence or three on this incident should be included there. — Hunter Kahn 14:37, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete. It seems improper to have an article about someone if we don't even have the chap's name in the title. ONEEVENT is relevant as well, I believe. UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 14:40, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the
  talk) 18:05, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Note: This debate has been included in the
  talk) 18:05, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Note: This debate has been included in the
  talk) 18:05, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete - No justification for an article on the person per
  WP:NOTNEWS. Really nothing here but a trivial news story of the day. Tarc (talk) 18:11, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete. Clear violation of
  WP:NOTNEWS. _wjemather^bigissue 21:12, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. -- -- Cirt (talk) 21:23, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy delete as blatant plagiarism and violation of
  WP:NOTNEWS. Jalapenos do exist (talk) 22:07, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Speedy delete This is a flagrant transgressor of
  WP:NOTNEWS. It’s not even close. Greg L (talk) 22:43, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete: appears to fail several parts of
  WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE — Google News shows only one hit for "Ilya Sobolevskiy". --Closeapple (talk) 20:44, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete
  WP:SNOW. Plagiarism is not allowed.Wolfstorm000 (talk) 05:49, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Delete. VR _talk 19:24, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.