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Camp Ashraf 3 (MEK camp in Albania)

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Camp Ashraf 3 (MEK camp in Albania) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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This is another POV WP:COATRACK about the MEK moved directly from draft to the mainspace (there have been several recently). The article is filled with POV-pushing and weasel words using sources like American Herald Tribune, Emerging Europe, etc. The notable aspects of the topic can already be found in the main article (where it's written with more neutrality). Alex-h (talk) 17:10, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

• Keep: there is significant coverage in reliable sources such as The New York Times ([1]) or Foreign Policy ([2]), and continued coverage in reliable sources (of varying depth) in ABC News ([3]), RFE/RL ([4]), Associated Press ([5]), Al Jazeera ([6]), etc. Also the length of the main article, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, calls for split articles, which have been repeatedly proposed in the past. MarioGom (talk) 20:10, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
• Keep::The subject is supported by well-known reliable sources. In fact, the topic has been worked on independently in different years in reliable sources:

1. An Iranian mystery: Just who are the MEK? (BBC 2012)
2. Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) (cfr 2014)
3. احتمال اسکان ۳ هزار عضو مجاهدین خلق در آلبانی (DW 2016)
4. از بغداد تا تیرانا: پایان سی سال حضور مجاهدین خلق در عراق (bbc 2016)
5. Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK (The Guardian 2018)
6. Trump lawyer Giuliani defies House subpoena in impeachment inquiry (Reuters 2019)
7. MEK Ashraf-3 camp in Albania becomes base to fight Iran (Washington times 2019)
8. The White House Once Labeled Them Terrorists. Now They're Being Called Iran's Next Government (Haaretz 2019)
9. گزارش اختصاصی اشپیگل از کمپ مجاهدین خلق در آلبانی (DW 2019)
10. "Highly Secretive Iranian Rebels Are Holed Up in Albania. They Gave Us a Tour (NYT 2020)
11. How Albania Ended Up in Iran’s Cyber Crosshairs (foreignpolicy 2020)
12. "Albania severs diplomatic ties with Iran over cyber-attack (BBC 2022)
13. Terror threat forces cancelation of Iranian dissidents’ summit in Albania (times of israel 2022)
14. The 25 U.S. Cities With Largest Homeless Populations (usnews 2023)
15. Why was this Iran dissident group raided in Europe? (Aljazeera 2023)
16. albanian police raid iranian dissidents camp (voanews 2023)
17. Biden admin walks tightrope amid Albanian police raid on Iranian dissidents that killed one, injured dozens (Foxnews 2023)
18. Albanian police raid Iranian opposition camp, seize 150 computers (Foxnews 2023)

The POV issue has been wrongly raised to delete the article. According to which Wikipedia rule is POV a reason to remove an article? This problem can be solved by editing the article and discussing it on the talk page.GharaDash (talk) 09:56, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Politics, Terrorism, Iran, and Albania. MarioGom (talk) 20:25, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: yes the camp exists and there are sources saying so, but that doesn't solve the issues in this nomination. All the historical information about the MEK is already provided in the MEK article. The only points that are notable about this camp is that it hosts the MEK and that there was a raid there recently, both of which are covered in the main article (and there is a separate article for the raid). The POV WP:COATRACK problems here have not been addressed, and they're the main reason for the deletion nomination. This article also wikivoices from unreliable sources and from WP:CHERRYPICKING, violating several Wikipedia guidelines (WP:NOTADVOCACY WP:CFORK WP:NPOV WP:UNDUE WP:CHERRYPICK WP:POVPUSH WP:RS, and probably others too). Alex-h (talk) 12:18, 14 July 2023 (UTC)