Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 Ramadan attacks
Summing up: I created this article with solid sourcing, prompted by a 3 July article in the New York Times ''ISIS Uses Ramadan as Calling for New Terrorist Attacks'' http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/world/middleeast/ramadan-isis-baghdad-attacks.html?_r=0.  Although I have continued to build the article, other editors have brought it to the point where it passes not only  but also .  The most cogent of the objections raised above (ignoring those of the IDONTLIKE IT type) argue for a merger into the List of Islamist terror attacks, on the grounds that insufficient "linkage" of these attacks exists.  While it is difficult to know what would completely satisfy this demand, short of a signed affidavit from Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, it is in fact sufficient that there were announced intentions by major Islamist terrorist organizations to make this a bloody Ramadan, and there is solid evidence that terror attacks were both inspired by and carried out by jihadist Islamist organizations.  Moreover, while my  ball informs me scholarly discussion is likely to follow this memorably bloody Ramadan, and the 2015 Ramadan attacks, scholarly sources are not strictly necessary: RS are - and we have them.  Current events articles are necessarily begun while an event is current, scholarly analysis follows.   It is now over 24 hours since the last delete iVote was cast.  That is probably due to the horrific fact that "the Muslim holy month of Ramadan came to an especially bloody conclusion." http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iraq-death-toll-weekend-baghdad-attack-reaches-175-40342349 AP report published by ABC News, tragically validating this article.   In the prayerful hope of a better year to come, and with kudos to the several editors who continue to upgrade and improve the article, most notable
— User:Callinus, 22:51, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:HEY||WP:CRYSTAL (Wikipedia:Notability)