Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brandon Teena


 * 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The result was   speedy Keep/withdrawn. Stifle (talk) 09:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Brandon Teena

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Notable only for a single event; WP:COATRACK for violence against LGBT people. Stifle (talk) 12:53, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * keep. Sorry, I think that having a movie made about the events of your death probably gets you over the bar of notability.  Notability is an odd thing.  Veronica Guerin, for example, is notable and IMO warrants inclusion because of her journalism work, her murder, and the two movies made about her...but one could say that her article could also be a coatrack for drug-related crime in Ireland. Shall we go delete her article too? Syrthiss (talk) 13:10, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * As with Teena's, Guerin's murder had more wide ranging impacts on politics/society. Clearly not coatracks imo. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 21:55, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Question What is the single event? Her death?  The trial?  Her courtship? Her life? Drawn Some (talk) 13:54, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep, noteworthy due to the movie as well as news coverage at the time and after. NawlinWiki (talk) 14:52, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. There is a documentary listed in IMDB about this person. I think it's notable. JulieSpaulding (talk) 16:37, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'd say successful Hollywood biopic is enough evidence of notability. If people are entering POV material, that can be dealt with in editing; there's nothing instrinsically coat-racky about this subject. Hairhorn (talk) 17:00, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep - plenty of non-trivial coverage, a film etc. I think coatrack claims are misplaced for this person Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 18:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Plus the Pet Shop Boys song -- all in all quite notable. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 21:54, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Snowball Keep Brandon Teena was the subject of two widely seen motion pictures, and the circumstances surrounding Brandon's murder helped to raise national attention to the disenfranchised state of the transgendered Americans. I am extremely surprised to see this subject considered for deletion. Pastor Theo (talk) 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Unbelievable that this has been proposed for deletion. Among the filmgoing public, the subject is a household word. Rivertorch (talk) 03:27, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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