Talk:Jane Creba

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I have removed this 'trivia' section:

• Three weeks before she was killed, she said in her weblog that she listened to "Goodbye My Lover" by British songwriter James Blunt over and over again, claiming she couldn't stop listening to it 1.

I don't think it really needs to be explained why the above is not encyclopaedic, but I'm willing to do so if someone requests it. --Saforrest 17:20, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Explain it to me then. The Canadian press made quite a big deal about it, and I was hoping to expand the article to include more about the girl herself, and that's pertinent to her. If that needs to be rewritten or redone, I'll do that.-RomeW 11:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, what is the importance of this information? The only reason I can see is the implied dramatic foreshadowing her own death (her own "goodbye"). Since this is reality, she can't really have known what would happen; I therefore thought the bit unencylopaedic. I guess I'll admit to being a bit offended by it too; I read the implied significance of this tidbit as an attempt to escape from the reality of this girl's inexplicable death into a banal soap-operesque tragedy.

Anyway, if it was reported on so extensively by the media, it should be mentioned, but prefixed with something like "many media sources noted that Creba mentioned in her weblog that...", etc. --Saforrest 19:06, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

• Creba is described by friends and family as a top student and excellent athlete, a warm person who was full of enthusiasm, a ‘bright light’, and ‘a loving and caring soul with a cheerful open heart’. " She was perfect" students of her school said. A makeshift memorial of flowers, candles, and stuffed animals was set up at the site of her death, and was removed with her family’s consent on January 9, 2006.

I don't think this needs to be here. The article shouldn't be about Creba, she's insignificant. It should be about the political effect her death had. --Dakese 04:27, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I think we can have a bit of information on her life. This is an article about a person, not just an event- this should reflect that. There are other articles on people who have had similar legal effects- Terry Schiavo, for instance- and there's at least a little blurb about their lives. Creba deserves no less. -RomeW 19:47, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

The public response to her death, the flowers, etc. are quite noteworthy and are probably as significant as the "political effects" (e.g. the federal election influence, the Guardian Angels, etc.) since this establishes the reaction of Toronto to the shooting. --Saforrest 19:06, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I concur. To say that she's insignificant is not only callus and in incredibly poor taste, it ignores the fact that the name of the article is, after all, Jane Creba. Jaileer 20:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

The most important part is that last; namely, that she is the subject. --Saforrest 19:06, 13 June 2006 (UTC)