Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashkelon rocket attacks

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.‎

The result was merge to Ashkelon selectively. Discarding two votes not based on P&G (one of which was reverted), and discounting two WP:VAGUEWAVEs that don't engage with the source analysis, I see consensus that the events, encyclopedic as they may be, do not meet our guidelines for a standalone article. Owen× ☎ 10:23, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ashkelon rocket attacks

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WP:NOTNEWS and WP:PROSELINE. Redirect to Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade. Longhornsg (talk) 01:36, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime, Events, Military, and Israel. Longhornsg (talk) 01:36, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, i am willing to expand this article. JaxsonR (talk) 02:21, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Ashkelon per WP:ATD.4meter4 (talk) 03:20, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Meets WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV. I also just added sources from The Guardian, Reuters, NBC News, Al Jazeera, and others further demonstrating notability. This was a multi-month bombing campaign between Israel and military insurgents in the Gaza strip that predates the current conflict. The article might need some improvements through editing but it meets the guidelines for inclusion. Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 18:58, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is all news reporting of what happened. WP:NOTNEWS. Longhornsg (talk) 01:20, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lean keep but redirect wouldnt be bad. ←Metallurgist (talk) 23:44, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. @Metallurgist: and @Gjb0zWxOb: How does this pass WP:EVENTCRIT or WP:GNG (which requires SECONDARY sources)? Contemporaneous reporting at the time of the event in the news is WP:PRIMARY. To become WP:SECONDARY coverage, sources must have distance from the event, and that doesn't seem to exist in the sources. (see https://libguides.ufv.ca/HistoricalNews which explains when news becomes secondary). I also question whether two separate rocket attacks are even necessarily the same event the way we have put them together here. This is why I thought a merge to Ashkelon could work. Best.4meter4 (talk) 11:20, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Im not really that fussed about it. I would like to see a lot of this PIACRUFT on both sides reduced. Its the most overly documented conflict in world history. ←Metallurgist (talk) 17:15, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not to mention having so many standalone articles treating incidents as isolated means we inevitably cover them incompletely and without the right context (on all sides). Longhornsg (talk) 01:27, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I do not disagree and I commend your work on this issue. ←Metallurgist (talk) 17:40, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 04:28, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge: to the article about the location. Happened a decade ago, with not much for lasting effects from the attack alone... News items are about all that describe the event. Oaktree b (talk) 14:29, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Meets WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV Agnieszka653 (talk) 21:01, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 08:26, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Salafi jihadist insurgency in the Gaza Strip, information is already listed. JaxsonR (talk) 18:02, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:PRIMARYNEWS: no secondary coverage at all; insufficient even for a mention in another article, let alone a whole article. lp0 on fire () 09:48, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge This sort of event is relatively routine, and there is no indication of lasting coverage. I don't see anything notable about this particular attack. Location is a good merge target, and there are probably others about the conflict that would be suitable. Also comfortable with full deletion per WP:NOTNEWS. Anonrfjwhuikdzz (talk) 23:56, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge (somewhat selectively) into Ashkelon. While notability can always be debated, this and other content is badly missing at the target. From a content perspective this is a no-brainer. Moreover, it look like the entire article of Ascalon should be merged into Ashkelon as well. gidonb (talk) 01:04, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.