Talk:Michael Kovrig

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Notability / merge proposal

As per WP:BLP1E, I'm wondering if this article meets Wikipedia's notability threshold. The capture of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor are important events worthy of inclusion in the encyclopedia because of their significance in a broader saga about the extradition of Meng Wanzhou and the breakdown in Canada-China relations, but the individuals themselves are not especially notable for anything other than being pawns in a sad geopolitical power struggle.

This might be said of other political prisoners, of course, and there's a good argument to be made for having stand-alone articles. But it may be more useful to have an article about Detention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor or something, which would also allow for a broader discussion about the surrounding context and ramifications.TheBlueCanoe 00:20, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Surely you have a point and could create such an article, but I would prefer to see both individual articles stand separately just as Meng Wanzhou's article stands separately.LFlagg (talk) 03:30, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we should get rid of every page about Korea as well, because neither country is that notable and the Korean War is usually dismissed as the "forgotten war." Daehanmindecline (talk) 14:28, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]