Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ear piece bandit

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete --cesarb 09:09, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ear piece bandit
Unfortunately, armed bank robberies are common enough not to be usually notable. Physchim62 16:49, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep - http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/unkn/earpiece.htm --It seems slightly more well known than an ordinary armed robbery and compared to some of the stuff we keep I think it meets notability requirements. gren 16:53, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Off the bat, I'm inclined to think that as a rule of thumb, anyone who makes the FBI's Most Wanted list has gained enough notoriety to be notable enough. That said, I know that a lot of these people aren't that notable -- they're just criminals who haven't been caught. Still, at least this guy does have a catchy nickname and some notoriety... Anyway, this appears to be a copyright violation, as the text has been lifted from the FBI wanted poster linked above, so it'd have to be rewritten. -- Captain Disdain 20:59, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * PD as a product of the U.S. federal government? Uppland 23:03, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * That might be true... but you'd still need to cite it (even if copying is legitimate) and it wouldn't make for a very good article just reading like it did there would it? gren 02:14, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Most Wanted Posters are in the public domain -- the FBI wants them copied and transmitted as far and wide as possible. Xoloz 04:32, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 05:24, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Physchim62 and JamesBurns. Quale 19:54, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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