Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kasandra Shepherd

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 no consensus, defaulting to keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 20:52, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kasandra_Shepherd

Wikipedia is not a memorial, lack of historical significance? Jmcnally 03:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as non-notable. The significance of the subject's murder, although a horrific circumstance, is not established. I hate to sound callous, but many people are murdered every day, and while it is almost always tragic, not all of them should be catalogued on WP. -- H·G (^words/_works) 04:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: I was also slightly disturbed to see an entire category for "Murdered Children". While this is horrific and sad, I fail to see what is valuable about keeping a list. Jmcnally 15:48, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and comment Sad case, but with the number of murders in Canada alone, being a murder victim in and of itself doesn't provide notability. As for why there's a category for murdered children, categories serve as "meta information" for a host of articles. In and of themselves, they are simply descriptors added to an article, which then allow one to find other articles in that vein. Captainktainer * Talk 16:43, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Captainktainer. --Ardenn 17:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• The article doesn't do a very good job of explaining this, I admit, but the notability of the Shepherd case was that it led to a judicial inquiry which recommended a major overhaul of Ontario's system of child protection, because it was held that the Children's Aid Society's failure to protect her from parental abuse was a contributing factor in her death. I don't feel particularly strongly about this one, personally — it is certainly keepable if expanded, but could also perhaps be merged into a "controversies" section at Children's Aid Society. Bearcat 23:11, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Subject was notable enough to warrant a five-page article in a journal concerning child welfare in Ontario, linked from the article. Some of these types of cases are quite notale in the area where they occurred, and the article mentions a well-publicized inquest in 1997. Even though I've never heard of her, residents of the area may be. I think the article is a candidate for expansion, not deletion. Neil916 23:24, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand per Bearcat & Neil916, but make sure that importance is asserted. --Dhartung | Talk 07:19, 21 July 2006 (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.