Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grace Mcdonnell


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The result was   delete. WP:SNOW. If a redirect is desired it can be WP:BOLDly created. The Bushranger One ping only 04:23, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Grace Mcdonnell

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Brace yourselves. What we have here is a young child who is notable only as a victim in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting — with, as usual, no discernible reason why she would warrant special attention as a permanent standalone topic in an encyclopedia. As always, Wikipedia is not a place to memorialize the dead, no matter how tragic the circumstances, if they haven't actually met a notability guideline — we have, in fact, a longstanding policy against keeping articles about people who are "notable" only as victims of other people's actions, no matter how much media coverage they may garner in the first few days after the event, if there's no sustained notability for us to write about beyond the death itself. Especially when it presents potential privacy issues for her surviving family members. There's certainly a place for content of this type on the Internet on a site that's designed to memorialize the dead, but Wikipedia is not that place. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 04:46, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete and create a Redirect to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The US Presdent mentioning this girl does not meet WP:GNG. WP:BIO1E and WP:VICTIM also apply and give no reason for this article. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 11:23, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: WP:BLP1E does not apply as this child is dead, but says about the same thing as WP:BIO1E which applies to bios of the living and the departed. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 11:23, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:30, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:30, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:30, 25 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete per Bearcat. This article is just an obituary, and given the subject it would need keeping an extremely close eye on for vandalism. Wikipedia is not the place for this. Martin 4 5 1  (talk) 17:05, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - obvious case of WP:BIO1E and WP:VICTIM.--Staberinde (talk) 11:55, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete (we have no reason to keep this content) but not opposed to then making it a redirect to the Sandy Hook article as a replacement. --M ASEM (t) 18:03, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete with a redirect....but wanted to mention that the last time I posted a 'delete with redirect', it was regarded as an invalid option, see Articles for deletion/Victoria Leigh Soto. Shearonink (talk) 01:40, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete or Redirect to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting per WP:BIO1E and WP:VICTIM. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:47, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Agree with Bearcat's rationale. Dreambeaver  (talk) 00:09, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.