Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unlawful arrest

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. Jinian 16:52, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unlawful arrest

Not an encyclopedia article; rather, a listing of quotes from various trials (court decisions?) with no context or link to the cases. Delete and redirect to false arrest. If somebody wants to incorporate useful contents to arrest and related articles, I don't want to stand in his way, but I consider it a hopeless task. - Mike Rosoft 10:58, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to false arrest Astrotrain 11:46, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• Merge anything useful, otherwise just redirect. Edgar181 12:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and add a paragraph in summary for context. Fix it don't nix it. Ruby 14:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Ruby. This will become an article one day. Ifnord 15:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Unlawful arrest should not redirect to false arrest, as it is a much broader concept. False arrest is a common law tort. An arrest can be unlawful for many reasons, such as (in the United States) that it violates the Fourth Amendment. But the article does need serious work, I agree. I'll put it on my list. Delete. On second thought, looking at the page more closely, this is so bad as is that it would make more sense to nix it and start over. The cases cited are so old and obscure that they misrepresent the law in the United States. I don't have time to fix it before this vote concludes. There is nothing useful in here to merge. (I teach Criminal Procedure at a law school, BTW.) Thunk 17:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• If this is being kept (and I'm not voting), it must either be renamed Unlawful arrest (United States Law) or drastically rewritten. --Doc ^ask? 18:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)--Doc ^ask? 18:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: Anyone who would merge this or clean it up should probably be a legal expert, as the descriptions may omit important circumstances of the case. Gazpacho 18:47, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to false arrest Jcuk 21:07, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. To repeat my crossed-out comment: I think Unlawful arrest should not redirect to false arrest, as it is a much broader concept. False arrest is a common law tort. An arrest can be unlawful for many reasons, such as (in the United States) that it violates the Fourth Amendment. --Thunk 22:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The page is not an article that sets out to explain the concepts in a coherent fashion but is a series of points and factual statements without proper context. As an aside, the false arrest page is U.S.-centric and should be identified as such or be recast so that it has more generic utility. David91 01:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Agreed with Ruby here. JONJONAUG 01:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete based on Thunk's comments. The contributor is an adherent of so-called "patriot mythology" [1] as evidenced by edits at Talk:United States Constitution. Gazpacho 06:47, 25 January 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.