Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shane Bernier

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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 no consensus to delete. W.marsh 00:41, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shane Bernier

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This article has hardly any encyclopedic content, is non-notable according to WP:BIO and reads like an advertisement Kzrulzuall Talk• Contribs 01:39, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment I really don't like it because its very existence encourages that the entirely misguided "most letters" thing will never die, and whether this kid wins or loses his fight with cancer, the organizations and hospitals and probably even his family will have twenty years of cards pouring in to regret. there are two sources begging people NOT to participate and one egging them on. This is very much a bizarre manifestation of a moral hazard. --Dhartung | Talk 03:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. I wish the kid well; those who believe in the mass mailing variety of "complementary medicine" can canvass for it elsewhere. -- Hoary 08:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
  • 'Weak Keep' -- mutliple independent references to newsworthiness. The whole thing is rough on encyclopedia standards but can't see how there's any real reason to delete at this time. I imagine at some future point and the record (if he gets it) goes to some other sick kid, sure, but for now I just don;t see the point of deleting. If we have enough space to host pages on which Pokemon character looks most like a turtle or whatever we can have a page about a sick kid in the news. DreamGuy 09:01, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, thirty thousand cards aren't that many compared to other sick children who have done things like this before. And the child's illness, while tragic, doesn't net him notability either. Lankiveil 10:44, 13 May 2007 (UTC).
Not 30.000, but more than 125.000.[1] The goal is 350 000 000 cards. --Helon 15:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete - this is one of these things were one should morally say keep, but, although it's been in the news recently, isn't quite notable enough. Tim.bounceback(review me! | talk | contribs | ubxen) 13:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment When I get cancer, I'm going to request lap dances. --Infrangible 02:19, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete and if not now, after May 30 when she will have failed to break the record. If it did, then it would be N.DGG 03:17, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Additionally it's BLP--he's a minor--only 8 years old, and he can not conceivably give us consent. His parents seems to have decided for him, but we don't have to follow their view if we think it might harm the boy. DGG 03:21, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
The motives for this article seems to be about gaining publicity for the boy in order to receive the letters, instead of an encyclopedic entry, in my opinion. --Kzrulzuall Talk• Contribs 11:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge Possibly merge to an article about the phenomenon of requesting mass mailings to children with terminal illnesses.--Xnuala (talk) 10:51, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per dreamguy - it's at least somewhat notable and newsworthy, unlike some of the awful fancruft out there.DewiMorgan 17:51, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Remember that other crap exists... --Kzrulzuall Talk• Contribs 23:27, 18 May 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.