Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Death of Adrian Donohoe


 * 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. L Faraone  01:09, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Death of Adrian Donohoe and Adrian Donohoe

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Delete: Questionable notability. Is every police officer killed in the line of duty in every country on earth notable per se and worthy of his or her own Wikipedia article? Of course not. I know this article was created some time ago but I just came across it. Quis separabit? 19:42, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
 * If this article is deleted, so must the Adrian Donohoe related article. Quis separabit?  22:10, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:26, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:27, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:27, 16 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Guy got a state funeral. Seems rare for Ireland. Shii (tock) 13:43, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Possible Keep In Ireland, at least in recent decades, this is rare and a matter of national concern--and at least somer previous ones have had extended public and political interest for many years. I do not know if this is true for all of them.  DGG ( talk ) 03:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment: This is a very odd deletion nomination. Look at this from the BBC News World Europe section, dated two days ago, five months after it happened. If there are objections to articles on police officer deaths, as the nominator suggests, this isn't the one I would start with. --86.40.192.222 (talk) 15:08, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
 * This is a very odd deletion nomination. Look at this from the BBC News World Europe section, dated two days ago, five months after it happened. -- This AFD was initiated at least two days before that, but the article in question is insufficient to make me withdraw the nomination, but I am open to doing so should an argument so convince me. None of the rationales so far does (i.e. "this is rare and a matter of national concern--and at least somer previous ones have had extended public and political interest for many years"). Quis separabit? 22:52, 20 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Significant coverage with international aspects, backed by reliable sourcdes, therefore easily meets WP:GNG. No valid deletion rationale provided by nominator. Dl2000 (talk) 18:24, 20 May 2013 (UTC)


 * In addition: if this article stays then the family or kin or admirers, whatever, of any slain police officer whose death gets coverage in their own nation, has the right, at least in principle, to an article for that officer. We should not be respectors of national parochialism. Some editors will create articles, particularly hagiographies or homages, based on nationalist reasons, that would otherwise not have been created. That is why the hagiographic article is called Death of Adrian Donohoe, not the Bellurgan Credit Union Robbery. The article is about a Gardai killed during a local robbery. It is tragic that the young man lost his life but not encyclopaedic. Quis separabit?  19:04, 21 May 2013 (UTC)


 * (1) This has nothing to do with rights or wrongs or family or kin - it passes the WP:GNG by a long shot [no pun intended]. (2) This has nothing to do with national parochialism - it continues to feature in international news reports five months after it occurred. (3) It is probably not called "Bellurgan Credit Union Robbery" because the robbery of a credit union is not where the notability and long-term coverage lies. (4) It is probably called "Death of Adrian Donohoe" to match "Death of Jerry McCabe" and "Deaths of Henry Byrne and John Morley" - it was in fact originally called Adrian Donohoe. See Category:Deaths by person - this is the usual naming convention. (5) "Local robbery" is inaccurate - it occurred near a contentious international border over which the killer is suspected to have fled.
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