Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 West Palm Beach Wendy's shooting


 * 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 was   delete.  Sandstein  19:13, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

2008 West Palm Beach Wendy's shooting
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Just one death other than the perpetrator. Yeah, it made the national news for a day, because guys walking into restaurants and randomly shooting is kind of exciting, but it was no more than a short burst of coverage (no pun intended) - not really evidence of encyclopedic caliber. Biruitorul Talk 23:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  23:49, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  23:49, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable intersection of a shooting and a notable brand-name. Mandsford (talk) 00:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, the very reification of WP:NOT. Merely had some attention because there was the hint of terrorism/mass slaying in the first incoherent reports. Otherwise a sadly commonplace domestic violence incident. --Dhartung | Talk 05:43, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, press coverage indicates notability. In response to Dhartung, it does not matter why people focused on this, nor does it matter that it is "commonplace", provided it still makes waves. Everyking (talk) 07:37, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Transfer this over to Wikinews. GO-PCHS-NJROTC  (Messages) 14:06, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment We cannot transwiki to Wikinews, at this time, as they do not use the GFDL. --Dhartung | Talk 18:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOT. A fairly run of the mill gun crime with no coverage outside a single news cycle. Debate (talk) 14:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per the many fine reasons above. Yet another lamentable episode of violence, an example of the confluence of social pressures causing some of us to snap and go berserk. These things happen all to often, will continue to happen, and it happening at Wendy's is more a result of randomness than significance or notability. We are an Encyclopedia, not a compendium of all the worlds ills. sic transit gloria mundi. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  15:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, although it may seem like a trivial article, for some reason the Wikipedia policy that is being applied to this article seems to make an exception for the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre and the Sydney River McDonald's Murders articles which are the same subject. OOODDD (talk) 21:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment You know, there were 21 people killed in the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, and 19 more people were wounded. There's no comparison.  Mandsford (talk) 23:43, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment, so if this article is deleted, the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre and the Sydney River McDonald's Murders articles should be deleted as well or else it would be a double standard OOODDD (talk) 23:59, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, sure, that's exactly what "there's no comparison" means... Mandsford (talk) 14:32, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * "Other stuff exists," is not a valid argument to keep. I hope we are not using body counts as a metric of notability. I encourage anyone with the time and energy that questions the suitability of similar articles to bring them here for discussion. Alas, I'm out of time and energy for this now.  Dloh  cierekim  04:34, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete as non-notable crime.  D C Edwards 1966  14:54, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


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