Talk:Nigeria Airways Flight 357

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Typically a commercial airliner accident with passenger deaths would be notable. In any case I found two articles in U.S. newspapers, with at least one having an analysis of the situation (analysis is the hallmark of a secondary source!). This almost certainly would have been covered in Nigerian newspapers in the 1990s. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:06, 5 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

A commercial airliner accident with passenger deaths meets the criteria for inclusion in aviation articles per WP:AIRCRASH - that's far from the only consideration for a standalone article, which needs to meet WP:GNG. An article with two third party sources, six sentences and an infobox, with no WP:SIGCOV that I can find beyond immediate media reports, does not meet GNG in my eyes. I've opened an AfD, so I'd suggest sending all discussion there. Danners430 _{tweaks made} 13:37, 5 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

My understanding is once you have multiple reliable sources - at least two (generally) - GNG is met. As I've stated in the deletion discussion, both sources are from the United States while this incident happened in Nigeria. Nigerian media in the 1990s should be presumed to have ample coverage of this accident, even if the sources are not easily accessible online. WhisperToMe (talk) 14:42, 5 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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