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. - Mailer Diablo 06:45, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speculative and badly-written original research. Self-described as a conspiracy theory, full of weasel words (which is the only way such speculative content can be written). Not even encyclopaedic. Title of article is not a candidate for redirect, as it is non-encyclopaedic and non-notable. Jdcooper 12:45, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Jdcooper 12:45, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:HOAX, WP:NN, and WP:VANITY ST47 13:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per ST47 and nom. It's also fairly amusing that the majority of wikilinks are almost completely unrelated to the topic at hand, as if to give an air of legitimacy. --Wafulz 16:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per the above. Republitarian 19:39, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong keep See the Salon article at http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/05/07/students/index_np.html Salon is a liberal site, but moch of the research was by Fox News. The young "Israeli art students" were in the US with a well-financed and well organized effort to enter defense department and DEA site to "sell art" to people in their offices. Der Speigel and Le Monde concluded it was some sort of intelligence gathering exercise or perhaps a training exercise for young spy wanna-be's. If it is "badly written" then feel free to edit it. Edison 21:52, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wikipedia is not a soapbox, particularly not for POV-pushing conspiracy theories. Even as conspiracy theories go, this is not even an important or notable conspiracy theory. Jdcooper 23:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Cleanup even though speculative in nature, it has been covered by the media. Clean it up to make it encyclopedic in content. --Ageo020 23:14, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - we do not cover everything ever covered by the media. This is a non-notable storm-in-a-teacup/propoganda, if we covered everything of this level of importance we would be flooded with junk. Jdcooper 00:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per ST47. ⌠Yellow up⌡ 10:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletions. -- Visviva 11:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• delete the only real new story I could find is from the bbc. An allegation that there are mossad agents covering at art students could, at best, be included in mossad. Jon513 14:58, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom, ST47, and Jon. The topic may be a hoax, and, on top of that, if this actually happened, it's not really notable because from what I can gather, it turned out to be nothing. Srose (talk) 15:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Kill per nom. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 00:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. I feel Wikipedia shouldn't cover every news story or rumor. However, if kept, should be renamed, since the article involves a claim that a particular group of people was posing as israeli art students -- it's not about isreaeli art students at all, certainly not in general. Need to identify who the group actually is and title them as such. Group may well already have an article and if so incident should be merged into at most a small section in main article, if notable enough to stand on its own. --Shirahadasha 01:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 01:56, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Quite a well known and notable story and many sources have covered it. Deuterium 03:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep. Only those with a political view strongly supporting Israel wants this story deleted. This story is documented in numerous mainstream news sources like CNN and ABCNews. User:jasoncwward

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.