Template:Did you know nominations/2015 Islamic State killing of Christian migrants in Libya

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The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Launchballer talk 16:56, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

2015 Islamic State killing of Christian migrants in Libya

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~~... that none of the Christian migrants executed by the Islamic State in Libya in April 2015 were from a country militarily aligned against the group?~~

Source: Time

ALT1: ... that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church recognized around 30 Ethiopians killed by the Islamic State in Libya as martyrs? Source: Borkena
ALT2: ... that clashes during a protest against the 2015 killing of Ethiopian Christians led to over 100 arrests? Source: DW
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Created by Chomik1129 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Chomik! (talk?) 01:54, 28 March 2025 (UTC).

General eligibility:
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Adequate sourcing:
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Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Chomik1129: As you have done less than 5 DYKs you do not need a QPQ and the page was created two days before its DYK nomination. A quick check of the sources shows that all of them are from reputable sources. The first hook isn't interesting, but ALT1 is and I would suggest that is the one that is used. Jon698 (talk) 23:57, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Sounds good, thank you! Chomik! (talk?) 02:04, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Apologies for my intrusion, but I do have some concerns. If this is all the sourcing that there is I am really not sure this is notable per WP:NEVENT? This is a very severe event and the coverage is somewhat in depth, but every source cited is in a time period of less than a month, failing WP:LASTING. Is there nothing else? Because if there isn't, should we really have an article on something that made the news for less than a month and then was never mentioned again? And, if the sources do exist but are not here, then I do not think we are getting a complete picture of the event as required for WP:DYKCOMPLETE. PARAKANYAA (talk) 07:49, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Searching on Google Scholar there is quite a bit. So it's notable but I have concerns over WP:DYKCOMPLETE. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:01, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
  - I passed on promoting this for the same reason as above. A few notes: The background section is all written in present tense as it uses sources from 2015, but more recent sources about IS say "Libya was to be the second province in ISIS's caliphate, but by 2019 the group has been defeated militarily and eliminated as a political force." A large chunk of the article is the summary of the video. The "Reactions" section also seems to all be the immediate reactions citing the primary source news coverage of the event. Even if the subject meets WP:NEVENT, the article still seems strangely incomplete as it lacks information in the more recent sources. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 00:18, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
    - Seems like this one isn't ready for promotion yet. @Chomik1129: would you be able to incorporate some of the newfound sourcing into the article? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 14:21, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
      - @Chomik1129: The nomination will time out on the 28th, so please respond to the above and/or address any remaining concerns. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:55, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
        No response from the nominator despite multiple pings and on-wiki activity, so marking for closure per WP:DYKTIMEOUT. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:02, 28 May 2025 (UTC)