Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alyssa Funke


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The result was   redirect. Secret account 03:34, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Alyssa Funke

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Wikipedia is not a memorial and her suicide, while tragic, fails WP:EVENT because it has not led to any other long term effects or consequences. No one has been charged with any crime (unlike the suicide of Amanda Todd), there is no major court case (Unlike the suicides of Tyler Clementi and Megan Meier), her family has not filed any lawsuits or demand for changes in suicidal prevention, etc., her school has not done a thing about it either, nothing has been made in her memory, and this case has not been featured in a major documentary or news story (unlike Rehtaeh Parsons and Dawn-Marie Wesley). She also doesn't meet WP:PORNBIO since she didn't appear in any mainstream or major porn films before her death. I hate to say this, but suicide of teens and young adults are not that uncommon these days, but we are not going to have articles on every single one of them, are we? The Legendary Ranger (talk) 18:07, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Stillwater Area High School. There there is a paragraph about the tragic event. That is more than enough coverage. --Why should I have a User Name? (talk) 19:37, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Stillwater Area High School per above suggestion. No need to merge, enough informations there. Cavarrone 15:44, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep although I agree with much of the reasoning by the nominator (eg Wikipedia not a memorial etc) and yes this is a WP:ONEEVENT but what isn't a ONEEVENT is the major thread of this story which is Cyberbullying -- so if there are any redirects it should go to this topic which is ongoing and important, of which the Alyssa Funke episode is an unfortunate example. But simply redirecting to Cyberbullying doesn't seem right either, because the story has a coherent whole, notable as such, with specific parts (pretty teenager; straight-A student; porn video; cyberbullying; suicide) unlike other teenaged suicides, and such details could get lost in a bigger article such as Cyberbullying or Teenaged Suicide or maybe even depression. The Alyssa Funke story got plenty of media coverage easily meeting the WP:GNG, not only in the US but internationally such as in Britain, where it strikes a chord of concern among parents, teenagers, Internet users (practically everybody these days). That is, it has reverberated, and will continue to do so, in the media. The issue of teenaged suicide is ongoing, claims many lives, and yes most of these suicides are not notable, but this report here in the Daily Beast suggests why the Alyssa Funke story is notable, since it hints at a mystery underneath it all, not easily explained by a pressure of porn angle, or a cyberbullying angle either, along with an additional angle, namely, media criticizing other media for getting the story wrong.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:17, 19 October 2014 (UTC)


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