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A news item involving Salman Taseer was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 4 January 2011. |
"Social media" section excised
Social media reactions to the death of a politician are not worthy of mention, just as social media reactions to other world events are not (in general) worthy of note. There are several reasons I have removed the section, and I am listing them below in order of importance:
- The article is almost entirely devoted to the circumstances surrounding his death as it stands, and the section on his death could do without fluff.
- There are two opposing POV being propagated in the social media section, neither of which have a place in an encyclopedia article. Whether or not a statistically insignificant number of people condemned his death or praised his murderer is not relevant, unless said people are well known prior to the events in question.
- The section is incoherent and meanders aimlessly. For example, an uninterrupted span of 98 words is devoted to describing a page on a website known as "Millat Facebook", without even the pretext of reporting its position on the assassination (this is in addition to the fact that had an opinion been issued by the page, it would not be not worthy of mention in this biography). The section ends by quoting a rant about tolerance in Islam from an unidentified social media user. There are no quotation marks, so that this "quote" is indistinguishable from the actual text of the article.
- A number of the sources linked to included are barely notable, in addition to being only marginally relevant. This leads me to suspect they are included only as a means of self promotion. Examples include "Pakteahouse.com" or "emuslim.com" (in addition to a link to a Youtube video).
In the interests of full disclosure, I am Pakistani, and have a strong personal opinion regarding the laws related to the assassination of Salman Taseer. However, I am sure we can all agree that the propagation of original points of view (those favorable to us, as well as those we disagree with) is not the domain of an encyclopedia.
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