Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christa Worthington

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The result of the debate was no concensus. - Mailer Diablo 10:51, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Christa Worthington

Wikipedia is not a memorial, delete--nixie 02:55, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Strong Keep. This was a major news story in U.S. Media today (April 15 2005). It was a national story when she was killed also. If Laci Peterson and Terri Schiavo belong in wikipedia this article surely does. --DuKot 03:43, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki to wikinews but don't leave it in the main namespace of Wikipedia, her murder is not equivalent to the deaths Schiavo or Peterson (who's deaths were reported worldwide, and generated US legislation).--nixie 08:43, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Not noteworthy. No insult intended, but prior to her murder she was a nobody. Her death may have been picked up as a news item by national media, but her death did not stir any public debate nor protests of any kind. The most that could be said of it is that it inspired someone to write a book (of unknown popularity). This is hardly encyclopedic. --Durin 05:23, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. -- Darwinek 08:34, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep --ecb29 05:59, 16 Apr 2005
• Strong keep. Subject of this extensive New York magazine cover story in 2002. Accessories editor for Women's Wear Daily, acting Paris bureau chief for W, branched into antiques writing as a notable London-based freelancer, wrote a series of books published by Random House. "A nobody?" Just a 2005 Wikinews item? (By the way, we can't directly transwiki to Wikinews without checking how contributors licensed their edits: we're GFDL, Wikinews is public domain.) Samaritan 15:48, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • This is not an encyclopaedia article about Christa Worthington. This is a news article about a man being arrested for her murder, summarising a CNN report of the same. Feel free to write an encyclopaedia article about the woman. But this is not that article, nor is it even the beginnings of such an article. Uncle G 16:09, 2005 Apr 16 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. Seems notable enough based on Samaritan's research. android↔talk 15:55, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Wikipedia is not a news service. Wikipedia is the encyclopaedia. Wikinews is the newspaper. And this article exactly fits the Wikinews definition of a "news summary" (as per Wikinews:Wikinews:Content guide) as it is a summary of a CNN report. DuKot, ecb29, and Darwinek: If you want to write news articles, please do so in the newspaper. It's a wiki, and you can log in and edit it as easily as you are logging in and editing here. You can log in and create Wikinews:Man arrested on charge of murdering Christa Worthington right now. I encourage you to do so. (Don't hang around here wasting effort trying to mis-place a news article into the encyclopaedia. By the time that the VFD process has finished, your news article will be too old for Wikinews, whereas right now is exactly when Wikinews wants an article like this. Don't forget to add the {{source}} template to your Wikinews article, for citing CNN as your source as you have done here. See Wikinews:Wikinews:Writing an article. And if someone comes along and writes an encyclopaedia biography of the woman you can even interwiki link it into the news article, just like the Wikinews reports on Wikinews:Category:Pope John Paul II interwiki linked to the encyclopaedia article about him.) There is nothing of encyclopaedic merit in this article. This is a news summary submitted to the wrong project. Delete. Uncle G 16:09, 2005 Apr 16 (UTC)
  • I haven't worked on this article, and I'm not interested in writing news--I just think, though, that it has some merit. Why destroy useful information?
• Delete, Wikipedia is not a memorial. --Angr/_comhrá 19:26, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Very Strong Keep. N-Man^talk 23:00, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• delete. wikinews. Mikkalai 01:48, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. She MAY have been of borderline notability in her field, but this article only discusses her murder, which is not notable. If this article were properly expanded, I could possibly change my vote. Indrian 04:11, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand, appears to be notable. Megan1967 10:18, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Not only a notable news story, but the subject of a successful and controversial book. Haikupoet 23:28, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand based on her contributions to fashion. Capitalistroadster 01:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per UncleG. Radiant_* 13:35, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as article stands now. --Combuchan 02:33, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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