Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel McGann

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 delete. -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 02:52, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel McGann

Article on nn recent British murder victim apparently created as part of a series of contributions around black/Asian men committing murders. [1] I don't want to say "racist" but what's currently in Anthony Walker (a black victim of a racist murder) bothers me. I hope this is not a wider issue. Rd232 ^talk 18:57, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

noting that there is a revert war between an anon and various editors about the content that bothered me. See also Talk:Anthony Walker. Rd232 ^talk 11:19, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. The unfortunate Mr. McGann is entirely non-notable. TheMadBaron 08:45, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Declaration of interest I'm an interested party, so scrub my vote if that bothers anyone; I have been one of the people attempting to get the writer to moderate his views and contribute under WP:NPOV (without success) and therefore someone who has reverted him and engaged him in (futile) conversation over this and other edits. The writer is now issuing legal threats against others who have reverted him. ●REDVERS ^{HELLO●EMAIL●DOINGS} 21:20, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. There are thousands and thousands of murder victims, and Mr. McGann was one of them. Nothing about the circumstances of his murder, or the attendant publicity make this stand out. Joyous (talk) 21:51, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I am a disinterested party. If you are going to delete this article you might as well delete the Anthony Walker story. They are, in essence of the same grain. (preceding unsigned comment by 202.216.95.3 (talk · contribs) 31 October 2005)

The Anthony Walker article was nominated for deletion a while ago (see here) but the consensus was to keep it. We may have to discuss Christopher Yates, Tracie Cullum and Richard Whelan on AfD at some point as well (especially the first of these three) but this is probably not the time or place to do it. ●REDVERS ^{HELLO●EMAIL●DOINGS} 10:30, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

I actually came to this article via your profile revers. I have nothing to do with it at all in terms of interest. I was shocked to see the similarity between this case and the Anthony case. It will be odd to lose this one and yet keep the Walker case, when the two are so paralleled.

The parallel between a man murdered by a burglar in the course of a burglary and a man axe-murdered in the street for racist reasons is less than striking. Rd232 ^talk 11:06, 31 October 2005 (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.