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The result was no consensus. Needs cleanup, evidently.  Sandstein  07:00, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Disappear statues in tehran (2010) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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I guess this is about stolen statutes, but I don't see how, even cleaned up, this is an encyclopedia article. — e. ripley\^talk 22:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

this adventure is in top of news in Iran and it have news in English & it article have history list and etc... in Persian wiki-ناپدید شدن مجسمه‌های تهران (۱۳۸۹)--Surena (talk) 22:37, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Weak Keep as per WP:NOTNEWS and no other apparent notability -- Boing! said Zebedee 23:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  Changed my view in the light of the additional links found below -- Boing! said Zebedee 12:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:19, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:20, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

yes i know wiki is not news, but this article maybe have communication with 2009–2010_Iranian_election_protests ,because this communication this article is an encyclopedia article--Surena (talk) 08:53, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any references from reliable sources that suggests there is a connection between the two? (If not, it's just your own speculation, which is not relevant to this discussion) -- Boing! said Zebedee 10:52, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, may qualify for speedy as it contains no assertion of notability. Otherwise, it's a single sentence asserting that something happened. An encyclopedia article it is not. Heather (talk) 15:47, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep this article have notability(13 statues has been stolen and vanishing going continuesly) but it's very stub and need more infromationAmir (talk) 22:24, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  Do you have any reliable references from multiple independent sources to show that this is any more than a short-term crime spree (the reference given says it's only in the past month) and that it has any encylopedic value? If not, it's just one of the millions of news reports of crimes that happen all over the world every day (albeit an impressively brazen one), and they don't all get Wikipedia articles -- Boing! said Zebedee 10:57, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  1-first reason is some refs. tell that it hadn't stolen for money and it's from prohibiting of statue in Islam Shari 2-I found some independent refs. but all of them is Persian:
  

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/2010/05/100504_l41_statue_robbery_updated.shtml
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/2010/04/100428_l41_statue_robbery_tehran_2.shtml
• http://www.shamimm.ir/?83000A27964F4B458C5AD1C35B3D2573
• http://www.khabaronline.ir/news-61289.aspx (stealing of sheep statue from paradise of university!!!!)
• http://tabnak.ir/fa/pages/?cid=97798
• http://www.asriran.com/fa/news/112814/%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B8%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%AA-%D9%88-%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%87
• http://www.kaleme.com/1389/02/13/klm-18372
• http://www.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8902131422 (britaniphobia)
• http://isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1536983&Lang=P
• http://www.khabaronline.ir/news-59337.aspx
• http://aftabnews.ir/vdcawwno.49noe15kk4.html
• http://www.jamejamonline.ir/papertext.aspx?newsnum=100874779051
• http://www.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8902140980

Need more???Amir (talk) 08:25, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That looks good to me - nice work -- Boing! said Zebedee 09:48, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep. It's always difficult to determine the longer-term notability of very recent events, but these events have attracted coverage around the world including in The Washington Post[1] and The Guardian,[2] which reports that Iranian officials have blamed "the secret hand of England" for the thefts, so maybe the statues will end up in the British Museum in the next room to the Elgin Marbles. Phil Bridger (talk) 12:41, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  Well, we'll need something to fill the room should the Greeks ever get their stuff back ;-) -- Boing! said Zebedee 12:45, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep — Needs to be rendered into proper English, a valid list about a contemporary news event. Carrite (talk) 19:03, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, see WP:NOT#NEWS. Abductive (reasoning) 01:21, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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