Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/False Moshe Ya'alon quotation
I'm an inclusionist, and I believe the article can be written in a neutral fashion.  It is a newsworthy event, and it's about an event (a journalistic inaccuracy) that occurred over a span of years, so it's not just a single news item.  Although Wikipedia does not elevate many quotations at all to article status, much less List of misquotations|misquotes, there are a few and they can be encyclopedic and instructive to the reader.  This probably won't remain stable, but in this versionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=False_Moshe_Ya%27alon_quotation&oldid=308903440 I've just edited out of it all the synthesis, original research, and opinion I could find.  The article is probably a magnet for POV, BLP violations, Israeli-Palestinian edit squabbles, and who knows what else, but that alone is not grounds for deletion.  Troubled articles deserve attention, not removal.  My main problem is lack of sourcing.  We have only two reliable sources to date, the Toronto Star and the Columbia Journalism Review pieces, and each of them are just short "commentary on the news process" type pieces.  The article in its present state milks them for about all they are worth, repeating the majority of facts from each article.  So it can't get much better than it is, unless other sources come out.  Do two news stories about a quotation make enough fodder for an article?  I'm not sure.  Anyway, if this is deleted it should ''not'' be merged, because there is no article where it would not be a major  violation to include a large chunk of this text.  The articles about CAMERA and Ya'alon already contain due mention, and there are some BLP and POV problems with adding this to the litany of articles about every last journalist who has repeated the material, something that off Wikipedia is being done for partisan purposes to discredit individuals perceived as being anti-Israel
— User:Wikidemon, 16:45, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:WEIGHT (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)