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The result was keep (WP:SNOW). King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:45, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Headscarf controversy in Turkey[edit]

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Article's subjects fail to meet the relevant notability guideline (see WP:N). It's content should be added to articles like Religion in Turkey, Islam in Turkey etc. Turkish Flame ^☎ 16:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep High-quality article and topic is important enough to justify a separate article. Looie496 (talk) 16:52, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions. -- I'^mperator 17:24, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep an article on this controversy under some name certainly makes sense given all the attention in the news. JJL (talk) 23:34, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep definitely notable - continues to receive press, including from PBS this just last week here. JCutter (talk) 08:38, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I confess I'm curious as to your thinking, Turkish Flame, since the article contains links to several independent reliable sources giving significant courage exactly as required by WP:N. Do you have any justification for thinking it ought to be merged? Olaf Davis (talk) 13:33, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is no any other articles in Wikipedia about "headscarf controversy in a country". This article should be merged into Religion in Turkey, Islam in Turkey etc. --Turkish Flame ^☎ 14:49, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's because in most other countries, the headscarf issue is a minor controversy. In Turkey, it's considerably more prominent, as the ban on headscarves is in a predominately Muslim country. Turkey, if not the only, is the largest predominately Muslim country to have such a ban on headscarves. --Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 15:18, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tunisia, another muslim majority country, have a ban on headscarves. And it's only banned in public schools and government buildings in Turkey. --Turkish Flame ^☎ 16:23, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:WAX. Just because there is no other article on other headscarf controversies, does not mean that there cannot be one for Turkey, especially as it is clearly notable, receiving mentions in many reliable sources such as newspapers and books. My knowledge of Turkey's ban, and my ignorance of Tunisia's ban, is just one example of which ban is more notable. If there are enough reliable sources about the Tunisian ban, there could be an article on that ban too. --Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 16:44, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Keep Meets the notability guideline. Many reliable sources on article, and numerous others exist in print or electronic form. From a two minute Google search, I find:

  Newspapers: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]

  Books: [8], [9], [10], [11]

  Notability is firmly established. --Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 15:37, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - notable, and can be proven by lots of great sources such as BBC and Voice of America found by Patar knight. Bearian (talk) 18:00, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep multiple reliable sources demonstrate this is not only a hot political topic in turkey, but has been so for a long time.Bali ultimate (talk) 19:56, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per eveyone but the nominator. Isn't it snowing yet? Edward321 (talk) 23:40, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Neutral; I agree with Turkish Flame; it puts Turkey and Arabic countries in the same place. But on the other hand, the subject is true; there is a huge headscarf controversy in Turkey recently. I don't think the contents of the article is neutral and true. They look so distorted. But if the contents would be changed and replaced by good sources, there will be nothing to criticize I think. – Especially the statics tables – --♪♫Berkay^0652|message 17:15, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The Turkish controversy is particularly notable , and very conspicuous in the sources. DGG (talk) 18:43, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep why delete? it is one of the most controversial debates in the country's history. Whoever raised the deletion probably wants the controversy to be hidden and can't face facts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.194.14.147 (talk) 20:28, 15 April 2009 (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.