Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Harvey Callahan


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The result was   redirect to List_of_individuals_executed_in_Alabama .  MBisanz  talk 03:11, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

James Harvey Callahan

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 * Delete. Fails notability requirement, his notoriety as a murderer is just WP:ONEEVENT WWGB (talk) 08:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.   —WWGB (talk) 08:06, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List_of_individuals_executed_in_Alabama as James Harvey Callahan is a useful search term. Subject is not in any way notable beyond the facts of the event for which he was executed, a case which does not have its own article; as such, fails Notability_(people) (not WP:ONEEVENT, though, because that's a subset of BLP, which only applies to living people).  Baileypalblue (talk) 14:27, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as Wikipedia is not a directory of murders or of executions, neither is wp a WP:MEMORIAL. This case does not appear to be at all different to a vast many other tragedies. I don't have any problem with the page being used as a redirect per Baileypalblue. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:47, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep As almost the only country with a Western-based judicial system that actually executes people, the remaining executions in the US are highly exceptional from a  world perspective, and each of the people killed this way is notable. DGG (talk) 23:40, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete nn crook. No objection to the redirect proposed by Baileypalblue. I take exception to the reasoning of DGG, as that would make all people notable who have an exceptional end to their lives or exceptional punishments (perhaps all beheadings, all exiles, all thieves with their hands cut off, not to mention all victims of the Holocaust, plane crashes, or various exceptional events). Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:33, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - I am sympathetic to DGG's view that the simple fact of being executed in the United States could make someone inherently notable. In this case, the man does seem to pass WP:BIO, as he was the subject of coverage from multiple independent sources; that that coverage was all about his death shouldn't rule it out, as it's his death that's notable about him. On the other hand, there are concerns with WP:NOT here, and so given the transience of the coverage a merge/redirect may be more appropriate. As it is though, I think there's (just about) enough here to pass our requirements. Terraxos (talk) 04:17, 27 January 2009 (UTC)


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