Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tamika Huston

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 of the debate was keep.  Grue  13:48, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tamika Huston

PROD tag removed by anon. It's sad when people die, but Wikipedia is not a memorial, and getting murdered doesn't make a person notable. Delete. User:Angr 07:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep: there's news coverage and even meta-news coverage. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-06-29 08:42Z
• Strong keep: significant news event. Lots of WP precedent here; see eg. LaToyia Figueroa. –Dicty (T/C) 10:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep, this article seems to cover the (notable) subject quite well. --Coredesat talk 10:33, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• AfD tag was missing on article--I've applied it... -- Scientizzle 18:53, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Huston's story was widely used as an example of racial disparity in news coverage. It's interesting to see the familiar names (if you're American, that is) at Missing white woman syndrome that received orders of magnitude more press, especially Brooke Wilberger who disappeared at almost the same time. -- Scientizzle 18:53, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Huston's story is interesting. This is one of the articles that deserve coverage because of MWWS/missing pretty girl coverage. O'Reilly, Van Sustran, Grace and many others exploit this media coverage for their own personal gains. user:LILVOKA.
• Keep per LILVOKA and Scientizzle. --ColourBurst 20:49, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete as per nom. No evidence of encyclopedic notability, . Keep voters - please note that Wikipedia is not a TV news channel, and that "interesting"/"human interest" is totally insufficient for notability in an encyclopedia. Regarding the relation to the "Missing White Woman" comparison - the FIRST time this comparison is made for the disappearance of a black woman is probably sufficiently notable in itself. But if this comparison comes up every time a black woman or white woman or any other woman disappears, are we to include every single one of these cases as articles just because the news media needs "talking points" each time to cover their asses? Bwithh 01:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. This post-current affair has plenty of reliable sources (media coverage), and relates to a number of concepts. However, as per Bwitth, it is to a large extent unreliable human interest hype. So it is with great reluctance that I keep my keep. Black-Velvet 12:43, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Delete this article and we may as well delete all articles on other murder victims like John Lennon or Rebecca Schaeffer. Celebrity status (or lack thereof) is NOT relevant. Drmagic 00:12, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I'm sorry, but I don't understand that one at all. Those people were famous when alive. Huston wasn't. I don't see any similarity. Fan1967 00:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Looks like the anon got it right for a change. RFerreira 03:22, 2 July 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.