Talk:Funeralgate

What is a "non-scandal?" I've heard of a scandal, and "not a scandal," but what in the world is a "non-scandal?" Clarification would be nice.

~Bobo Fernandez

Merge to Service Corporation International
I was going to do a AfD on Funeralgate, but I wanted to see if I could get consensus here on a reduction/merger. This was going to be my AfD proposal for Funeralgate:

Either a non-notable neologism or a POV/OR attempt to link George Bush with the Service Corporation International.


 * The term ”funeralgate” is a non-notable neologism. A search on Google yields 423 unique ghits (and 985 non-unique ghits--it says there are “about 12,400” but when you click through you see that’s wrong).  A Lexis full-text search of major newspapers, magazines, and journals yields exactly 5 hits, 3 of which have nothing to do with the scandal described in the article.  What's more, according to WP:NEO, "To support the use of (or an article about) a particular term we must cite reliable secondary sources such as books and papers about the term — not books and papers that use the term" (my emphasis).


 * As for the content: Half of the content is a POV/OR attempt to link (1) George Bush, (2) no-bid contracts after Katrina, and (3) the shooting of Harry Whittington, with the original scandal.  As for #1, Bush’s possible role in the scandal is already covered in the well-written, NPOV section Service Corporation International.  As for #'s 2 and 3, the article cites no reputable sources that suggest a connection between these and the original scandal, therefore their mention in this article is POV/OR, or irrelevant.

There are details in this article that may be relevant to the actual scandal that do not already appear in Service Corporation International. They are entirely contained in the following:

The lawsuit was quietly settled in November, 2001, weeks before the revelation in the media that two Florida cemeteries owned by SCI were recycling graves, removing remains from their places of rest and placing other people in the graves.

9,000 people have staked a claim to a $100,000,000 settlement in a lawsuit stemming from the desecration of graves at these cemeteries. In one instance at Menorah Gardens, a Jewish cemetery, SCI desecrated graves and left corpses in the woods where they were devoured by wild hogs.

The general manager of Menorah Gardens, Peter Hartman, died by apparent suicide on December 27, 2001.

If these details are relevant to the scandal, they should be merged into Service Corporation International.

Per the above, either delete this article; or, reduce to its non-POV/OR parts and merge to Service Corporation International. Pan Dan 12:13, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

So before I take this to AfD, I would like to see if I can get consensus here. My proposal here is to reduce this article to its non-POV/OR parts and merge to Service Corporation International.

Pan Dan 12:18, 13 September 2006 (UTC)