Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Whelan

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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 delete. --Coredesat 02:19, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Whelan

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Another murder victim. Newsworthy - yes. Encyclopedic - no. We seem to have had quite a lot of these all seeming to highlight alleged evidence of race-crime in the Britain. Please delete this per the others. -Docg 10:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete. Sad to say, murder is far too common to confer notability on its victims. BTLizard 10:52, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete WP:NOT a memorial or a newspaper, this is a news story not a biography. Guy (Help!) 11:56, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • delete per Guy. By the own description of the story the news remained completely local. Maybe if it recieved wider coverage there might be an argument for keeping it, but being a murder victime is almost by defintion 15 minutes of fame unless the person is killed by a celebrity or the person's death starts a riot or something similar. JoshuaZ 13:28, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per the above. Also it has weakly supported, seemingly politically motivated undertones. --Evb-wiki 14:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep. The accusations of racial bias this story promoted are vaguely notable. Perhaps a better venue would be an article on racial bias in the British media, however. JulesH 15:23, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per Guy, we really don't want articles on every single crime, leave that for WikiNews. One Night In Hackney303 15:33, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • delete This is not a news site Lurker 16:43, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, newsworthy information is not necessarily the same thing as encyclopedic information. Has no notability beyond showing up in a few crime-report bits. Arkyan • (talk) 17:05, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per the nominator, better off with Wikinews not here. Burntsauce 17:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete WP≠WikiPoliceblotter. Carlossuarez46 19:23, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete We are not Crimopedia or a memorial or a newspaper. Delete per WP:NOT miscellaneous information. See essay WP:NOTNEWS. Could be put in Wikinews. Edison 20:29, 6 June 2007 (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.