- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was No consensus. — Scientizzle 19:04, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Prod moved here at author request. My take was that murderers and their victims are non-notable unless there's something else to make them so. Acroterion (talk) 02:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete: Not really notable, aside from WP:NOT#NEWS. - Rjd0060 02:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete: This is a rather new story and isn't really notable compared to other like crimes. News articles in themselves do not make it notable as nearly every murder is reported in some form of media. Further, per WP:N, notability is not temporary. ++Arx Fortis 02:47, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete' Per WP:NOT. Twenty Years 13:53, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Does WP:NOT#NEWS apply? It reads: "Routine news coverage and matters lacking encyclopedic substance, such as announcements, sports, gossip, and tabloid journalism, are not sufficient basis for an article." Ivy League economics professor murders his wife and keeps police and the university guessing for a year. It's newsie now, but somehow I would think someone at the University of Pennsylvania, at least, might be looking for encyclopedic information about this guy at some point in the future.--Lyonspen 04:23, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Even meets speedy criteria (no notability asserted), because a murder is not notable in itself. GregorB 08:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Srong keep per Lyonspen's correct reading of WP:NOT#NEWS and extensive international news coverage over the last year. --A. B. (talk) 01:41, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - please read WP:NOT#NEWS correctly, as others have said. It does not say "news" should not be in Wikipedia. Also, Wikinews is not a substitute. -- Fuzheado | Talk 00:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Agreed. I didn't much care to edit this article (I mostly edit astronomy and anthropological articles), but I've improved it and support its existence because I believe these topics have a place on wikipedia. -Kain Nihil (talk) 08:41, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletions. -- A. B. (talk) 01:36, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletions. -- A. B. (talk) 01:37, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of News-related deletions. -- A. B. (talk) 01:38, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.