Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bendale Business and Technical Institute 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.  MBisanz  talk 00:09, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Bendale Business and Technical Institute shooting

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The article lacks noteworthyness MoRsE (talk) 11:12, 12 March 2009 (UTC) 
 * Delete per WP:NOT as lacking historical notability. Quoted from Notability: "It takes more than just a short burst of news reports about a single event or topic to constitute evidence of sufficient notability." Almost all of the sources are from the day of the shooting and there does not seem to be continuing coverage of the event beyond September 2008 (Google News - 2008 archives). Also, if I've understood the article correctly, then this was not a school shooting per se, but simply a crime that took place on school grounds. –Black Falcon (Talk) 01:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:NTEMP. At that time, the event was notable and there are sources to back that up.A google search will show a number of good results.See the video at Video and also in the papers. Smallman12q (talk) 20:26, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 00:01, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —TerriersFan (talk) 03:02, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Local, next-day coverage would make virtually every shooting, city council meeting, snowstorm, supermarket opening, walk-a-thon, etc. "notable". At best, this would be wikinews. - SummerPhD (talk) 16:55, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment It was picked up by several national newspapers, which are cited in the article.  I see no reason to delete it. Jwray (talk) 19:38, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete  Not intrinsically notable, and when newspapers pick up a non-notable event we find some excuse not to include it-- NOT NEWS if nothing better will serve.  Essentially, for notability someone has to be killed--1 person as a minimum, usually, based on previous afds, 3 or more. That seems to be the custom. Perhaps our basic concept of an encyclopedia  does not seem to have ever been thought out very well. DGG (talk) 21:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:NOT. Eusebeus (talk) 23:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Neutral I'm not convinced this is non-notable but notability as yet is not presented. Was this the most famous shooting? The first? Did it result in some major overhaul of criminal proceedings regarding firearms? Absent that I would suggest merging to any article about school shootings in Canada or similar. -- Banj e  b oi   07:59, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per NOTNEWS. Doctorfluffy (robe and wizard hat) 19:51, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.