Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karen Toshima

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The result of the debate was delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 14:40, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Karen Toshima

Wikipedia is not a memorial. JoaoRicardo 23:58, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The murder of Karen Toshima is mentioned specifically in the Wiki article on Westwood/Westwood Village. This article provides further information on this occurrence. Polylerus

• Delete. Tragic, but we can not have a memorial page for every murder victim. Not notable enough for it's own page. Aviationwiz 00:18, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. If delete must win the vote, merge the last paragraph and link to California State University, Long Beach and everything else into Westwood and/or Westwood Village. Samaritan 01:46, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Concur with where to merge Kappa 01:12, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Reluctant delete. It's not possible to have articles for every murder victim in the US; they'd outnumber existing pages. If anything permanent was changed in the LAPD or in Westwood as a result of her death, perhaps merge relevent information into the relevent articles. 23skidoo 04:57, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I concur with 23skidoo. I was the person who originally added the mention of Karen Toshima's murder to the Westwood article, but I think she is worth mentioning in Wikipedia only insofar as her death is relevant to the history of Westwood as a whole. I didn't add that link or that page and I don't know who did. While her death is tragic, I concur with JoaoRicardo that Wikipedia is not a memorial. There are simply too many people in the world (and too many tragic deaths in Los Angeles) for Wikipedia to have a full article on each and every one; that's what the Web as a whole, blogs, the Internet Archive, and Google are for.

--Coolcaesar 07:49, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Delete a sad story indeed, but street-crime deaths are not generally encyclopedic. 34 relevant Google hits. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 11:59, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. While sad, Wikipedia is not a memorial. Also, she is mentioned in Westwood Village, which should be enough. --Deathphoenix 14:33, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a memorial. Jayjg | (Talk) 19:48, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a memorial for people who only get 34 Google hits. --Idont Havaname 22:43, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable enough, Wikipedia is not a memorial. Megan1967 01:23, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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