Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Homer Elledge


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 18:18, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

James Homer Elledge

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Fails WP:BLP1E. Being executed does not show automatic notability. Joe Chill (talk) 21:15, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NW ( Talk ) 03:55, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article is well sourced and while routine news coverage alone may not establish notability at least some of the sources cited, for example, go beyond routine news coverage into serious social commentary. Rusty Cashman (talk) 22:10, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I have edited the article so that it is more clear what was noteworthy about this case. The material was in the already cited sources but was simply not brought out in the article itself. Rusty Cashman (talk) 04:04, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I found and added a couple of new sources for the article. One is just another local news article so it doesn't help with notability but it has a nice summary of events that will help with expanding the article (which I will get to in the next few days if nobody beats me to it). The other is a true crimes book by Ann Rule that devotes an entire chapter (more than 35 pages) to Elledge and provides quite a bit of detail on his life. I suspect that the existence of the book (which constitutes a reliable secondary source that is not a news report) plus the extensive news coverage should conclusively resolve the notability debate. Rusty Cashman (talk) 19:17, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep there seems to be enough coverage. The notability isnt  primarily the murder, but the trial  DGG ( talk ) 04:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep per DGG Crafty (talk) 06:23, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Killed two women: one was apparently not considered murder (just hitting in the head with a hammer until she was dead (?!)). Extensive coverage in a book ("Last Dance, Last Chance: And Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 8)"  Coverage in another book "Murdering myths: the story behind the death penalty" by Judith Webb Kay. Typical newspaper coverage of a murder trial and the eventual execution does not argue much for keeping. What was unusual was his efforts to speed the execution along and prevent any appeals. Seems like "suicide by murdering someone and not appealing." Edison (talk) 21:47, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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