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Al Jazeera Network

Al Jazeera Network

A few days ago, I reverted Al Jazeera to Al Jazeera Network. At the time, I had not seen any evidence that Al Jazeera calls their network of TV channels "Al Jazeera Network" -- i.e. I hadn't seen any mention that an organisation calling itself "Al Jazeera Network" actually exists. I have now seen sporadic, tentative hints on various webpages that Al Jazeera may indeed have formally reorganized itself (or may be in the process of doing so) to form a parent entity called "Al Jazeera Network". However, I would still ask people not to simply repeat the move of Al Jazeera to Al Jazeera Network without prior due diligence. I feel that giving the Al Jazeera Network its own article should require that the following be done first:

* Clear evidence of a restructuring of Al Jazeera and a concomitant formation of an Al Jazeera Network parent organisation needs to be found and cited. My own cursory Google search didn't turn up suitably unambiguous results.



 

* If and when moving Al Jazeera to Al Jazeera Network, the former article should NOT be made a redirect to the latter. As far as I gather, Al Jazeera is the English name of the original Arabic language TV channel. So given sufficient evidence of a restructuring, Al Jazeera should be made into an article about the TV channel and Al Jazeera Network should be made an article about the network/parent organization.

* Currently, the Al Jazeera article is about the Al Jazeera network (small n) and Al Jazeera channel. Doing the above requires this one article to be divided and rewritten into two articles (neither of which should be a simple redirect to the other).