Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kano riot of 1990

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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 delete. Mackensen (talk) 15:30, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kano riot of 1990

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There were notable riots in Kano in 1953, more than one in the 1980s (Maitatsine's followers), in 1991, and later than that, but I can find no reference to any significant interreligious conflict in Kano in the year 1990. Picaroon (t) 19:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Merge to either Kano or a new article covering the various Kano wars if there are significant info and sources available, otherwise merge to the main article. It seems to be very notable events, although giving possibly that there is not necessarily a whole lot of web info on the riots (although book sources may be aplenty) I would first create if an individual article is warrented a main article about the riots first and progressing to split articles if it is possible. --JForget 23:53, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

The issue is that this riot either didn't happen, possibly the author's confusion with the October 1991 riot, or it did happen but was too minor to be covered by news sources (and if it isn't covered by news sources, it is not likely to be covered by any reliable source). Civil unrest is not an oddity in Nigeria, and riots are not automatically notable. Picaroon (t) 00:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
The article has absolutely no usable content, and the unusable content is of disputed accuracy. There is nothing to merge. Picaroon (t) 00:37, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I agree with Picaroon. Kano has been the scene of many a riot, but not in 1990. There is indeed nothing to merge. -- Ankimai 23:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
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