Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Yurko


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The result was   delete. I am unconvinced by the coverage, and a BLP should be held to high standards henrik  • talk  20:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Alan Yurko

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Violation of WP:ONEEVENT. See article history for examples of using this WP:BLP as a platform for advocacy of various types. &mdash; Scientizzle 17:16, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 17:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete. A fairly regulation example of WP:ONEEVENT - the subject of the article has no notability outside of the sorry tale described in the article, and sad though that event is, neither it nor the person reach the levels of notability required for an article. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 18:35, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Argento Surfer (talk) 19:49, 7 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep He seemed to have gotten quite a bit of coverage beyond his original conviction - his release based on a sloppy autopsy, his subsequent re-imprisonment for burglary, his case bizarrely being picked up by the anti-vaccine movement, etc. Nwlaw63 (talk) 22:33, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, and him being named a "hero" by the fringe International Chiropractors Association Pediatrics Council (antivaccination freaks). We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for notability here. -- Brangifer (talk) 08:01, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep alot of coverage beyond original conviction. Passes WP:GNG.--BabbaQ (talk) 14:31, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * @ BabbaQ & Nwlaw63: I fail to see the type of WP:RS-coverage that justifies this WP:BLP. If you have sources to present, please offer them. &mdash; Scientizzle 19:05, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree. If there are RS, independent of the self-promotion fundraising efforts used by Yurko and his antivaccination friends, please provide those sources. I remember at the time looking up his criminal record and convictions (he's a career criminal), but those are primary sources we can't use. Otherwise his wife has run the fundraising campaign, and he's gotten publicity on unreliable websites, mostly chiropractic and antivaccination. -- Brangifer (talk) 18:12, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
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