Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007 Plot to Behead a British Muslim Soldier
Further to my comments above: existing policies and guidelines have thresholds in place which articles have to reach in order to merit inclusion - specifically in ,  and OT. This article clearly passes all of these criteria. Therefore the only rationale for deleting becomes a debate between the difference between a newsworthy event and an encyclopedic topic.  Bearing in mind the Wikipedia:Summary Style recommends that sub-topics within a particular topic are split out to prevent articles becoming too long, you inevitably end up with articles on minor topics which would never expect to see on, say, Encyclopedia Brittanica. I accept that not all newsworthy events are encyclopedic topics, but when does the first become the second? The definition of encyclopedia - a comprehensive reference work - gives a clue in that people should have to want to refer to it. The event must have some historical relevance - perhaps a new law, a new political movement or something. It must be part of a greater trend, not an isolated instance. It should be part of a larger narrative. The article on a notable event - unlike a newspaper coverage of an event - should analyse the context and explain the impact and consequences of the event rather than just detail the event itself. This is, in fact, a good example of an event which '''is''' part of some much greater themes. When we start writing decent articles on Terrorism in the United Kingdom, Islamist Terrorism in the United Kingdom and Islam in the United Kingdom, events like this one will be key parts of these overall narratives. It's good to have articles with an indepth coverage of events like these - after all, Wikipedia is not paper - so that we can use our summary style and integrate them in. Isolated events with no wider consequence - like a highway crash perhaps - can be newsworthy but not encyclopedic, but this article is definitely both
— User:AndrewRT, 01:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:N||WP:NOT (Wikipedia:Verifiability)