Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brianna Denison

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The result was delete. --Bongwarrior (talk) 04:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brianna Denison

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• Delete. Notable only for her disappearance/death. Fails notability under WP:ONEEVENT. This is news, not encyclopedic. Seems like another MWWS case. WWGB (talk) 01:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

  You will notice, however, that at MWWS#Possible_instances_of_MWWS, missing white women who drew major media coverage are almost always considered notable enough for their own articles. --66.214.221.166 (talk) 01:44, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. Sad, but still a one-timer and clearly not notable. Pundit|utter 03:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Maybe a wiki entry can be redone after the case is settle, or future case development. TheAsianGURU (talk) 03:14, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:BLP1E. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 05:27, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Gary King (talk) 09:26, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Nothing to set it apart from other disappearances. GregorB (talk) 19:53, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. She may have been a missing white woman, but she is and was more than a mere syndrome. jengod (talk) 05:10, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Does anyone really care? Lots of other people go missing and get murdered, but only when a rich White girl goes missing do people start caring? DELETE. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guitarmasterpwn (talk • contribs) 03:34, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - this is massive ongoing news in Reno. If we need to rename this Brianna Denison murder or something, to point out that it's the murder, rather than the girl, that is notable, that would be fine. But Brianna's disappearance has been on the front page of every newspaper in town for over a month, has caused the formation of massive search groups, has changed all kinds of policies at University of Nevada, Reno, has inspired the Westboro Baptist Church to come picket her funeral - it's clearly a notable event. --66.214.221.166 (talk) 01:42, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps a more appropriate article for "Renopedia"? WWGB (talk) 02:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd argue that anything of major importance to half a million people is notable enough for Wikipedia. There are undoubtedly more Renoites following Denison's case intently than there are people worldwide who have noted half the articles on Wikipedia (articles for single television episodes! articles for obscure collectible card games! articles for each character of animes with a fan base of maybe two thousand English speakers!). Incidentally, the fact that articles like Jennifer Strange routinely survive AfDs while Denison's heads for deletion really does show how utterly broken this process is. --66.214.221.166 (talk) 04:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

• Strong Keep - I created the article - I've attempted to improve the article as much as I could with appropriate citations and I personally believe it's notable enough. --James Bond (talk) 00:17, 23 February 2008 (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.