Haaretz: Israeli PM Netanyahu's Son Asks to Be Removed From Wikipedia in Rare Request

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Haaretz: Israeli PM Netanyahu's Son Asks to Be Removed From Wikipedia in Rare Request (archive)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son, Avner Netanyahu, has taken the unusual step of asking the Hebrew-language Wikipedia to delete his entry on the digital encyclopedia, sparking a fascinating storm in the local volunteer editors' community, who is now debating the request and is voting on whether to approve it.

"I am the subject of an entry, and I do not see any public importance for it. The entry is sparse in any case," Netanyahu wrote on April 8, after deleting a paragraph about his personal life. His fiancée's name was deleted from the section, leaving only the fact that he "is a fan of the Beitar Jerusalem football club."

Forty users currently support deletion, and 25 oppose it. The vote is due to end on Tuesday.

[Bezdomni]

Do the reporters at en.wp think this event takes him beyond WP:BLP1E ? Apparently he also once appeared on a TV gameshow.

[rnu]

Do the reporters at en.wp think this event takes him beyond WP:BLP1E ? Apparently he also once appeared on a TV gameshow.

If we find two more sources Wikipedians can write Avner Netanyahu Hebrew Wikipedia article controversy (T-H-L).

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ynet (tranlation via IscanInfo): Avner Netanyahu to Wikipedia: Take down the entry about me, "I'm not important"
One more to go?

[Hemiauchenia]

I was initially confused as I thought this was about Netanyahu's other son Yair Netanyahu (T-H-L), who is definitely a public figure and has enough long-term coverage to pass WP:GNG.

[DanMurphy]

I was initially confused as I thought this was about Netanyahu's other son Yair Netanyahu (T-H-L), who is definitely a public figure and has enough long-term coverage to pass WP:GNG.

Never heard of Avener either. Yair is a nasty, nasty piece of work and in a case of extreme horseshoe theory often uses anti-semitic tropes, and allies with white supremacists, to attack people who criticize the far right.

[Bezdomni]

I was initially confused as I thought this was about Netanyahu's other son Yair Netanyahu (T-H-L), who is definitely a public figure and has enough long-term coverage to pass WP:GNG.

Never heard of Avener either. Yair is a nasty, nasty piece of work and in a case of extreme horseshoe theory often uses anti-semitic tropes, and allies with white supremacists, to attack people who criticize the far right.

I don't think "extreme horseshoe theory" means what you think it does. (Or you're just bored and trolling...)