Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Contagious shooting (2nd nomination)


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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Hawkeye7 (talk) 05:57, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Contagious shooting
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WP:NOTDICT - at best transwiki to wiktionary. Most of the examples' articles and sources don't mention "contagious shooting", either, making a large chunk of the article original research. The article was kept at AfD 10 years ago, but the standards have changed a lot since then. ansh 666 01:56, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I still have my qualms about this article, but it seems like they're probably fixable, so I'm going to withdraw this nomination. ansh 666 18:48, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. ansh 666  01:58, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Firearms-related deletion discussions. ansh 666  01:58, 20 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep The article is about the concept not the word used. The references can use any synonym. For instance WWI was not the name for the Great War until we had WWII. I count over 5,000 GHits in Google News archive. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 02:02, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep Citation of sources on the article shows sufficient notability of this term. Optakeover (U)(T)(C) 05:48, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep, and trim a bit (in particular the lead). The word is around in newspapers, and there is a reasonable section with examples, which disprove respectively WP:OR and WP:DICDEF claims. Tigraan Click here to contact me 11:10, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep There are enough sources that mention it specifically by name to show it's a legitimate and notable topic. Felsic2 (talk) 16:04, 20 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep per reasons given above.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 16:27, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - term that is used and discussed in many criminal justice textbooks and police training manuals. In fact, I used to teach about it. Bearian (talk) 00:44, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep, not a strong showing of notability and could use some ce work and would like to see some additional examples with RS citing; for example, if used and mentioned in police training. Kierzek (talk) 13:28, 21 October 2016 (UTC)


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