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First Siege of Samarkhel (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Unsalvageable article, which is totally LLM'd [1] with one line of passing mentions: The Mujahideen managed to seize Samarkhel village east of Jalalabad. Topic is scarcely notable, WP:TNT applies anyways. – Garuda ^Talk! 23:30, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Jihobbyist (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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This is a neologism, and does not meet our standards for it. There is actually a lot of usage of the term, but it's always referring to it in the context of its creator, and should be merged to the creator of the term, Jarret Brachman. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:57, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete for lack of significant coverage. It's hilarious, and I'm a fan of portmanteaux myself (I invented mergetarian in 2008), but as the years have passed, we've become more strict with notability. Bearian (talk) 04:57, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1976 Olympia bombing (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Cannot find evidence this has independent notability to pass WP:NEVENT. There were a lot of bombings in the Troubles. Unless further coverage exists that proves notability, should be merged to Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1970–1979)#1976 PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:51, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:01, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - I've just added a bunch more detail, plus contemporary news references. It's also significant in that this incident caused the Provisional IRA to temporarily pause their bombing campaign in Britain due to the fallout - Alison ^talk 04:19, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Alison The contemporary news sources don't really help it pass NEVENT. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:21, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I believe the fact that the Provos paused their campaign for some time adds to the uniqueness of this particular bombing - Alison ^talk 04:23, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Well, that's currently uncited. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:25, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - While, yes, there were a "lot of bombings in the Troubles" (and not all meet WP:NEVENT for standalone titles), my own WP:BEFORE search has thrown up at least a few sources which suggest some lasting relevance. I've added these (and related text) to the article. Including two from Yonah Alexander. One of which is framed more as correlation rather than causation (in terms of drop-off in IRA activity). While the other is more clearly framed as causation (in terms of drop-off in support from Qadhafi). The pre-existing Nationwide source/report, in which John Stapleton (timestamp 1m20s) speaks about the "[IRA's] latest line in explosive hardware" (and George Styles subsequently talks about its relevance) are also, IMO, contributory... Guliolopez (talk) 11:39, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Notable event with numerous weighty mentions in a number of reliable sources. - SchroCat (talk) 10:15, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]