Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brandon Vedas (2nd nomination)


 * 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 keep. J Di talk 17:46, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Brandon Vedas

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Brandon Vedas is not in of himself notable. This page is not appropriate and the arguments given in the previous nomination for deletion do not give significant justification for a page dedicated to this individual. I argue that while Brandon Vedas might be appropriately mentioned as a case study in a scholarly sense, he is not notable outside of high level research in sociology and is not notable at an encyclopedic level. I use an analogy based on a situation described on the AfD page:

- An article about a band and three articles about its members, none of whom has done anything else notable outside of the band.

The previously given arguments identify the sociological context of Brandon Vedas but no notable individual contributions. mikebutterfield —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mikebutterfield (talk • contribs) 20:42, December 22, 2006  (UTC)


 * Keep -- overwhelming consensus to keep in last AfD, and the arguments still hold. Haikupoet 06:20, 23 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep -- Articles like this are the reason I come to Wikipedia. If I need to know the year the Peloponnesian War started, or need to know about the ecosystem of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, I'll fucking look in a REAL ENCYCLOPEDIA! Deleting the Brandon Vedas article is a transparent attempt to ape your intellectual betters. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alfs boner (talk • contribs) 10:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC).
 * Keep - The guy has had enough news coverage to be considered notable. The incident caused a semi-great moral panic. - Femmina 10:16, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - The incident has notability with regards to news coverage and in particular it's the sort of contemporary article that gives Wikipedia the edge over old and rapidly outdated book encyclopedias. Robert Mercer 19:41, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * All votes above this line are from Articles for deletion/Brandon Vedas, and their removal from that page can be seen here. Please post new votes after this message.   J Di  talk 03:13, 25 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep Basically, the nominator isn't listing a specific good reason why we should delete the article and goes straw-manning. Yeah, the guy didn't do anything remarkable in life. No one's denying that. However, his manner of death was remarkable, and has caused tons of interesting discussion, all of which is notable in itself. Now allow me to go straw-manning: Billy Foghorn, 25, was the first victim of the Great Andromedan Invasion of 2009 as the UFOs blasted him to bits on his field. His last words, captured by the automatic video monitoring system black box of his combine harvester, shocked the world. ("Oh darn it. Not again.") Sure, you could cover that in the GAIO2009 article, but the newspapers happened to talk about the poor guy to death so that's whom they are looking up, even if he was just an ordinary farmer. And we don't have a specific "big picture" article like that in this case; There's no article about the Great Told-You-I-Was-Hardcore Moral Panic of 2003. I'm staying by my previous recommendation. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 10:22, 25 December 2006 (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.