Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/December 2014 Rif Dimashq airstrikes

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 14:22, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

December 2014 Rif Dimashq airstrikes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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No secondary coverage. Wikipedia is WP:NOTNEWS. News coverage of the event is WP:PRIMARY and there is no WP:LASTING or WP:SUSTAINED coverage. Not every one of the hundreds of reported airstrikes is independently notable per WP:GNG. Redirect to Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war, where it's already covered with context. See WP:Articles for deletion/2021 Tapuah Junction shooting for a similar AfD. Longhornsg (talk) 16:49, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Can easily be incorporated in an article covering the larger context, agree with nominator. BHC (talk) 18:55, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Military, Terrorism, Israel, and Syria. Longhornsg (talk) 16:49, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: 10 years later and this appears to have been largely forgotten, with no coverage past the initial burst of news... Not notable due to the lack of sustained coverage. One drone shot down, four missiles fired, nothing serious appears to have come of this. Oaktree b (talk) 19:34, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events and Aviation. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:39, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. 11 years later and this hasn't been forgotten as it was included in the 2020 book "The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East", by Christopher Phillips, published by the distinguished Yale University Press.[1] Still looking into BHC's merge proposal. gidonb (talk) 23:18, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Not forgotten, but a footnote in the broader of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict, especially compared to airstrikes Philips calls out as specifically WP:LASTING, such as the January 2013 Rif Dimashq airstrike. Good find, though. Longhornsg (talk) 01:06, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:33, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Nom has suggested a redirect, but the !votes are for delete - is there any reason this ought to be deleted instead of redirected?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, asilvering (talk) 04:25, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm okay with deletion. Longhornsg (talk) 12:03, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. There is no sustained coverage of the strike after the initial coverage and there is no record of colossal damage. Patre23 (talk) 07:10, 12 June 2025 (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.