Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 Steglitz shooting


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The result was delete. Joyous! | Talk 02:45, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Steglitz shooting

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Delete. Article about a fairly standard murder-suicide, with no evidence whatsoever of sustained notability. Wikipedia is not a newspaper and not an exhaustive directory of every criminal incident that ever happened at all — for something like this to warrant a Wikipedia article, there would have to be some evidence that it passes the ten-year test for significance. I'll grant that this was probably a good faith creation at the time, as it occurred just four days after the more clearly notable 2016 Munich shooting — but the article has been edited just once since the initial flurry of edits in the first few hours after the incident hit the paper, and even that edit was just a simple category change. Every criminal incident that happens at all is not automatically a valid article topic just because of the inevitable first burst of breaking news coverage itself — for a criminal incident to warrant an article, there has to be some evidence of sustained notability for more than just the fact that it happened. But with just a single statement that it occurred and just a single piece of breaking news coverage to support it, there's simply nothing like that here. Bearcat (talk) 18:34, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:44, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:30, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete A very brief article about a garden variety murder-suicide of no encyclopedic value, although tragic for the families of the victims.  Cullen328   Let's discuss it  04:37, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - appears to be a random killing, elderly patient bizarrely killing his doctor and then himself. No follow-up trial, major investigation or ties to terrorism. —Мандичка YO 😜 04:39, 27 November 2016 (UTC)


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