Talk:Kevin Whitrick

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I've got a picture of him hanging himself. Should I upload it and put it on the article? Floaterfluss (talk) (contribs) 14:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I recommend against it. There's no need to post such graphic content. Presumably at least one of the links cited will have this image since it's pretty widespread. 23skidoo 18:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)


There is no way we should feature the picture. Shame on you if you need it explaining to you why not. Grace Note 06:30, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

As the copyright status of any such pictures is unclear, they would have to be fair use and I'm doubtful they would qualify as fair use Nil Einne 19:38, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

The picture would qualify as fair use because it captures exactly why he is notable and on this project in the first place. I say upload it. Christopher Connor 16:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

There is a face picture[1] (nothing gruesome) used in the recent BBC article [2] about no one being charged in this case. Copyright BBC, so could it be used? It is clear that gruesome photos are NOT to be posted/redistributed per the detectives and at the request of the family[3]. BodyPride 01:04, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] OT but

I noticed in Brandon Vedas, we list a number of cases including this one with similar aspects. I'm pretty sure there have been cases when people have seriously said they wanted to commit suicide on the internet and people have taken them seriously enough to call the police who got there in time to save the person. While such stories don't tend to gain as much media attention, I'm pretty sure I've read about at least one which has receive attention probably enought to establish notability IMHO (this was possibly on 4chan or some other forum). We probably should have articles of these for balance Nil Einne 19:38, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

A case [4] of a suicide over the internet where people did try to stop the person (but failed). There was an article once that got deleted due to notability concerns. Can't say for sure that it does meet notability but thought I'd bring it to the attention of editors Nil Einne 19:52, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I noticed in the article pertaining To Kevin Whitrick, in external links they failed to include his Memorial Page :http://kevin-neil-whitrick.gonetoosoon.co.uk/ which I feel would be a nice gesture to friends and family, as all you seem to run accross here on the net is the negative side with no thought of the surviving family.

I think the connection to Brandon Vedas should be restored and I found a link to a 1998 radio interview about cybersuicide [5], but I'm done with my edits for now. All out of creativity. Peace. BodyPride 12:12, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Semiprotection

I don't really see why this article is semiprotected. It has very little content, it's about a not very notable event, and it hasn't really been vandalized a lot. Isn't semiprotection for high quality articles that have a lot to lose from being vandalized? Small stubs like this should be open to improvement by everyone.--Mars2035 23:20, 14 April 2007 (UTC)