Talk:Vince Weiguang Li

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This story has been picked up by the BBC, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chronicle Herald, The Winnipeg Sun, Canada.com, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Associated Press, Sky News, The Guardian, and Bloomberg.

The case has received extensive coverage across all of Europe and North America

due to the horrific nature of the crime (beheading, cannibalism) and the fact that it occurred on a bus, which we all assume are safe despite the lack of security compared to air travel.

Keep I've just done a bit of research on the precedents for this sort of thing, and the best example I've found is JonBenét Ramsey. The precedents in this case seem to be that, first, if the murder of an otherwise non-notable person receives sufficient media coverage, the murder (if not the person) is notable, and second, the page should be named after the victim (in this example, the article is named "JonBenét Ramsey" rather than, say, "The murder of JonBenét Ramsey", even though JonBenét Ramsey herself was non-notable). I feel that we have clear-cut notability thanks to ongoing coverage in dozens of notable news sources, and we also have a precedent for the handling of such cases. The article should be kept and improved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yosts5 (talk • contribs)
 * The point you are missing is that the event is notable, not the person. In general we usually have articles about the event but not the victim or the person who did it. Unless they have some exceptional notability like being a serial killer or mass murderer. Wikipedia is not a newspaper. That is what WikiNews is for. JonBenet Ramsey is an exception in that her article exists because of the extraordinary amount of coverage she has gotten and the fact that the news and investigation has gone on for more than a decade. -Djsasso (talk) 17:00, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

This is more appropriate for WikiNews149.99.63.218 (talk) 16:51, 1 August 2008 (UTC)