Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobby Moffet


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The result was   delete. JForget 22:38, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Bobby Moffet

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Otherwise non-notable individual "notable" only for his death. WP:BIO1E clearly covers this. Mkativerata (talk) 21:50, 4 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose His death has received significant press coverage, and it has raised some political questions e.g. has the UVF fully disarmed as it has claimed, and what about Dawn Purvis? PatGallacher (talk) 21:54, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes but is Moffet notable? All of that information can be included in other articles, eg the articles on the UVF and Dawn Purvis. --Mkativerata (talk) 21:55, 4 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:BIO. See WP:NOTNEWS, WP:BIO1E. Edison (talk) 21:57, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Very pointless, one-hit wonder material and is similar to Elizabeth Lambert for soccer Talladega87 (talk) 22:05, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:SINGLEEVENT ... although "one-hit wonder" might have been better expressed! WWGB (talk) 01:21, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete, per WP:SINGLEEVENT. However, I would be happy to see an article regarding the shooting, rather than the victim.  WackyWace  talk to me, people 08:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sad, but Wikipedia is not a news source. Might be worth a mention in any article that covers post-Good Friday violence. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 09:05, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Notable only for being killed. Manormadman (talk) 11:22, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Is only notable for being killed. Joe Chill (talk) 12:28, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep (pending better arguments to the contrary) or rename to Murder of Bobby Moffet (as per suggestion by WackyWace  talk to me, people). I don't deny Moffet became notable for being killed. However Murder of Robert McCartney and Brendan Burke have shown that that is not a disqualifier. The Belfast Telegraph reported extensively on Moffet's death, so evidently that occurrence has some importance, at least, in loyalist circles in Belfast. Otherwise please explain how Burke and McCartney disambiguate from Moffet in this regard. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 13:16, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comparing one article to another is generally a bad way of proving notability on Wikipedia. See WP:OTHERSTUFF. However, to look at the two examples you picked, one person's murder made the national news, and the other person had a good claim to notability before his death. That doesn't completely preclude the notability of a murder that only receives local coverage, but that would be the exception rather than the rule. See Notability (criminal acts). Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 18:45, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Not a notable person - merely a footsoldier in a paramilitary organisation and killed by its leadership. Is every paramilitary/ex-paramilitary in N. Ireland going to have their own page? And I beleive his name was "Moffett". Billsmith60 (talk) 19:46, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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