Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. (non-admin closure) voorts (talk/contributions) 16:17, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting

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This shooting lacks sustained and continued coverage. This should be redirected to List of mass shootings in the United States, where it already has an entry. The additional detail in this article is (1) a play-by-play of the shooting, (2) an extensive biography of the shooter, and (3) the aftermath section. I do not think merging that information would be appropriate per WP:NOTNEWS. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:06, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime, Events,  and Pennsylvania. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:06, 21 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Keep.
 * Continuing local coverage to this year (there is a lot more but from 2022 and 2024 respectively)
 * Several pages of sigcov in the 2023 book "Copycat Crime" published by Bloomsbury
 * Several pages of sigcov in this 2019 PhD thesis
 * The depth of coverage was significantly higher than in most comparable events
 * This also doesn't really help, formally, for notability but this is probably one of the most well known mass shootings online for how absolutely bizarre the motive was, and there is actual analysis of it in the context of the perpetrator's deeply odd internet history and its status as a copycat crime. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:17, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I read the 2023 source again and it also refers to "Allwinn et al. (2022)", which is this, as providing sigcov on this case. I can't access it but this one appears to be entirely about this shooting, and seems to have been published in a peer reviewed academic journal. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:29, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. Most shootings are not notable, but this one received extensive coverage relative to others. Especially critical is that, as PARAKANYAA demonstrated, it's being used as a WP:CASESTUDY. It's unfortunate that the people who worked on the article prioritized making it quickly over making it properly, but that's something that should be fixable with secondary sources. The big ugly alien  ( talk ) 02:19, 21 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Keep I think this article is important because it affected the local community and contributes to discussions on gun violence. There is Reliable that sources cover the event and making it notable.  Yakov-kobi (talk) 18:55, 21 July 2024 (UTC)


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