Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Kevin Sterne

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Given the high likelihood of victims' names being googled frequently, and the similarly high likelihood of misinterpretation of some arguments for deletion being misinterpreted as attacks against the article subject by non-Wikipedians, this discussion has been courtesy blanked. Please view the page history for a record of the discussion. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 06:44, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

This should probably be done for all of the victim AfD articles related to the Virginia Tech massacre. --StuffOfInterest 11:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I would agree in some of the other cases, like the Emily J. Hilscher article, but in this case I didn't see any kind of particularly inflammatory or negative comment. Or is it because the public might misinterpret us calling a person "non notable?" Tejastheory 17:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

That was exactly my reasoning, yes. Someone who has no idea that here "non-notable" is really just shorthand for "not enough sources for an article" may well misinterpret the meaning of such statements. That's not by any means to state that those who made such statements did anything wrong or improper, just that in this case, might be the best not to have that hitting people in the face on Google. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 23:45, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree; people who are not familiar with Wikipedia procedures may see the term "non-notable" as an insult. Of course, the deletion discussion is still available in the page history, although most search engines will not crawl it per Wikipedia's robots.txt file. --Ixfd64 02:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)