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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Bosstopher2 (talk | contribs) at 19:30, 17 February 2016 (→A victim of deletionism?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

A victim of deletionism?

Having recently created this article, I was a little perturbed to find that it was soon under attack, with about half of it being deleted by an editor exhibiting what could only be described as a highly deletionist ethos. They did so unilaterally, not bringing the issue to the Talk Page first. Elsewhere they described the page as a "Trash magnet of an article that perhaps shouldn't even exist", which frankly I think is a gross mischaracterization of a well-written and well-sourced article that covers an incident which achieved both national and international media attention. However, as User:Ryk72 has subsequently pointed out, there are BLP:CRIME issues at play here which need to be considered, particularly focused on this section and I suggest that we use this space to discuss them. Hopefully this debate can be held without anyone resorting to such unilateral deletions and pejorative attacks on the article content that we have previously witnessed. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 12:18, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hey m8! Here is my explanation for my actions. Firstly I'd like to clarify (per your comments at BLPN), that I am not secretly Bahar Mustafa, nor Frank Gaffney, Vani Hari, Roosh V or the unpopular subjects of any of the other BLPs I've edited in the past (Indeed I would have a very bizarre ideology if I secretly sympathised and personally supported all these people). As for what I deleted, the bit that has remained deleted is textbook WP:BLPCRIME, Mustafa is not a particularly notable person (see the deletion discussion linked above), and was never convincted with the crime she was charged with. That's basically the text of WP:BLPCRIME word for word. As for the other stuff I deleted, it's because it's not relevant to the topic of the article. This article is about the race row incident, not any other incidents Mustafa has been involved in. Therefore the bullying accusations are irrelevant to the topic of the article and should be deleted. Bosstopher2 (talk) 19:29, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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