Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muntadar al-Zaidi
Al-Zaidi's TV station is calling for his release. The way in which he should be treated by the authorities in Iraq is already a matter of controversy there. Thousands of al-Sadr supporters have demonstrated for his release. We may have to be patient for editors with the right language skills to add relevant material from Arabic-language sources on this. At that point, it is clear there will be too much material to reasonably fit in the article on George W. Bush. Therefore the choice will be between an article on al-Zaidi, or an article on ''the event itself'', which clearly meets notability criteria, if there are objections to an article on him. It is inappropriate to ask that the al-Zaidi article be merged into the Bush one when it has the potential to grow, but may simply not have had time yet. Let me add that a number of people are misinterpreting the intent of the "one event" guideline. It does not support a merger in any way. It is intended to prevent the creation of biographies of people associated with a single, notable event, when there are numerous people associated with that event (such as all candidates, including minor ones, in an election). In this case, al-Zaidi is more or less synonymous with the event, in which he was one of the two main protagonists. The "one event" rule is not an excuse to avoid evaluating the notability of the event itself. By any reasonable measure, this event was notable. Otherwise, newspapers wouldn't have thought it important to report it, practically unanimously. (See the general notability guideline .) That leaves the choice of creating an article for the event or one for al-Zaidi. Special:Contributions/67.150.245.46|67.150.245.46
— [[User talk:67.150.245.46|talk]]), 13:45, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
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Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)