Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dale Cregan


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The result was Speedy delete because of multiple violations of Biographies of living persons policy.

Dale Cregan

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Article about a suspect arrested for the shooting of two police officers in Greater Manchester, England this morning, as well as two previous incidents. There has been previous news coverage of this individual, but no doubt at this point the article qualifies for WP:NOTNEWS. Even if it doesn't, I personally have reservations about creating an article about a murder suspect at such an early stage because it is simply too soon. Besides, this has multiple issues concerning its content. This was PRODded earlier, but having just come across the article I thought an afd debate was more appropriate. Paul MacDermott (talk) 20:00, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete More problems than I care to think about. PatGallacher (talk) 20:18, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - Looks like it's been speedied, so I'll close this. The speed at which this appeared here is staggering, and yet again demonstrates the need for some guidelines on articles of this nature. I have a draft essay on this subject for perusal for anyone who's interested. Paul MacDermott (talk) 20:38, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
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