Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2011 Manhattan terrorism plot
This alleged terrorism plot has at this point http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22Ahmed+Ferhani%22+%22Mohamed+Mamdouh%22 over 500 instances of news coverage in many languages from countries all over the world.  is intended to avoid having encyclopedia articles about routine crimes, celebrity coverage, routine news announcement, and like things which are not of enduring importance. Terror plots from years past have in fact gained continuing coverage, and have been found to be encyclopedic, by surviving AFDs. Worried that this does not satisfy |GNG? Note the 500+ instances of "significant coverage in reliable and independent sources." GNG is easily satisfied by many news events of far less importance than alleged and prosecuted plots to commit mass murder for terrorist purposes. We added NOTNEWS to avoid Wikipedia being a mirror of every water-cooler story or routine crime story, which this is not. This case has already http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110513/NEWS/105130327 been noted as the first instance of trying alleged terrorists under a New York state law rather than a federal law
— User:Edison, 16:22, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTNEWS||WP:N (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)