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.

Pashtun Mafia[edit]

The result was delete. howcheng {chat} 23:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are exactly 143 unique Google hits for "pashtun mafia", most of which seem to draw some or all of their content from Wikipedia. The remainder are largely polemical. We therefore have an article and a category, Category:Pashtun Mafia, which are blazing the trail in defining this term. The talk page shows strong evidence of racially or ethnically motivated editing. I would like to nominate this as a Crap Article and leave it at that, but we've had complaints that it's biased and uses polemical sources in a selective manner. The 143 unique Googles persuades me that a POV is being pushed here. Guy (Help!) 12:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Just because any thing has lower google hits does not mean it doesn't mean it is not worth enough to talk about. Secondly all criminal organizations has a certain race involved in it. You can see the Italian Mafia , Alabanian Mafia, Russian Mafia pages. And as referred above most on the ethnocentric conversations have been played out by people who never contributed to article and they are not

a main part of this article. I think this is a wonderfull article which seperates a race from a criminal factions that exist from it.--Khanhamzakhan (talk) 22:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC) — Khanhamzakhan (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Delete per WP:NPOV, WP:N, WP:RS. Orderinchaos 12:20, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Yes, it's a mess, but there's some decent content in there. The history isn't that contentious, given some of the nationalistic/ethnic bashing we see. Change the name back to Opium Mafia or Opium Crime Ring, revert to this version to get rid of the worst of the anti-Pashtun coatracking, and list it with WP:NPOV/N for a month or two. If there's still a problem bring it back. Xymmax (talk) 13:20, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The article is vastly enormous and plagiarized from the listed sources. Most of the information is the authors original research with copy and pastes from different incidents and events to support the myth of a so-called ‘Pashtun Mafia’. This is a Crap Article and should be removed immediately. No one should be allowed to use the Wikipedia platform to pass on a certain Point Of View. Wikipedia is highly accessed and this article now ranks number 1 on all major search engines for a supposed international organized entity called ‘Pashtun Mafia’ that all major world agencies have failed to report. The author has gone around wiki and has inserted a link back to this article on various Pashtun/Afghan related articles in what I personally consider a malicious campaign of ill information against the Pashtun ethnic group. Please consider this garbage for removal! Also there is already an article about the Afghan opium drug trade so renaming is pointless no need to have two articles about the same thing.NangOnamos (talk) 03:03, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, does not appear in Google news or scholar searches, and appears only once in a book where it seems to be coined by the author. A bunch of smugglers is not a mafia. Blast Ulna (talk) 05:28, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NPOV, no evidence of the term pashtun mafia ofbeing used elsewhere. As mentioned previous it appears to be original piece of research. --Zak (talk) 08:30, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP Article has over 20000 google search results and published in major books . A lot of people have a

misunderstanding because the only books they see are online books. Wikipedia:Don't hope the house will build itself --71.183.58.25 (talk) 22:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- I get 148 g-hits. Blast Ulna (talk) 01:19, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also the above IP appears to be the same individual as Khanhamzakhan above, and removed the AfD and NPOV tags from the article. Guy (Help!) 23:20, 26 March 2008 (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.