Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 school shooting outbreak

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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. Fram 14:05, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 school shooting outbreak

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Looks like a neologism for a series of shootings in 2006. It's not a term used by any media or educational outlet, and this article is just redundant material from other articles. Wafulz 16:51, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete original research. Artw 17:48, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete no evidence is offered to support the assertion that 2006 is more notable than other years for school shootings. If such evidence were presented, I would change my vote. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richardshusr (talk • contribs) 19:21, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep There are legitimate OR/SYNTH concerns. Is there any one source that covers the topic?Vice regent 20:59, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
    • Immediately after the Virginia Tech incident, I think Time magazine did an analysis of school shootings over the years, including a graph that plotted the deaths per year.--User101010 01:50, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Many official studies have shown that violence in schools is stable or declining, and that after one shooting incident or bomb scare there are several copycat crimes. There's no support for a "2006 outbreak" and it isn't the way these things are normally classified (i.e. legitimate social science would look at a range of years). --Dhartung | Talk 21:06, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete It's a sad coincidence that there *may* have been a few more incidents than in other years, but this article really is redundant and original research. The section about 2005 and 2007 is a very weak way of supporting the claim of the article. --User101010 01:50, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unless it can be shown that this does not violate WP:SYNTH. Although some of the cited sources claim 2006 as the worst year to date for such incidents, there isn't really a basis for the claim of an "outbreak" in an encyclopaedic sense. All the information is contained in the relevant articles anyway. A subcategory 2006 school shootings may be useful. TreeKittens 00:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete info contained in main articles is sufficient, this is WP:SYNTH and unnecessary. I like the idea of categorizing by year. --Keeper | 76 18:48, 3 October 2007 (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.