Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Alaneme
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 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 Delete one spate of coverage on murder does not two noteworthy news items make.. Shell babelfish 22:30, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Christopher Alaneme
Looks like an nn-bio to me, but I was not sure enough to put it up for speedy deltion. Only around 650 Google hits. Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 15:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
- Keep per coverage from major news sources (2 links added to article). WP:BIO states that articles on "Persons achieving renown or notoriety for their involvement in newsworthy events" generally should be kept. NawlinWiki 17:20, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
- Comment. I'm not sure I know enough about the WP:BIO policy to vote, but this was a highly newsworthy case in the UK, and the issue of race-related murder has been heavily covered in the news here ever since the murder of Stephen Lawrence. I can't find an article about racially motivated crime in the UK which it could be merged into. Espresso Addict 21:33, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Sadly, I don't quite see how murder victims fall into becoming notable people unless ther are notable prior to their murder. By definition, a person's murder can only happen once, so any press that is generated by the murder would only count as one event and on coverage per WP:BIO. The event may be notable, but the person may not, and we should be clear about it. I suppuse someone could create a list of "victims of suspected racially motivated attacks", but that would be too subjective and could include every person who is murdered in a location where they were not of the same ethnic origin as the local community there. Ohconfucius 05:05, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
- 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.
