Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Rossiter paramedic


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The result was   delete. Mkdw talk 01:07, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

John Rossiter paramedic

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Trivial, NOT NEWS applies  DGG ( talk ) 00:14, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Trivial? This is history for NS paramedics and set the tone for many things in our system.( talk ) —Preceding undated comment added 01:39, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nova Scotia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:41, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:BIO. If it is indeed historical, then there should be sources to back that up. --Randykitty (talk) 09:33, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - It's sad, but getting crushed by a tree is not something that normally gives rise to notability. Nor does the establishment of a memorial scholarship fund in his honour.  -- Whpq (talk) 16:59, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * For your own good, delete per Whpq, WP:MILL, WP:MEMORIAL, WP:NOT, WP:SOAP, and WP:NOTNEWS. Actually, many first responders around the world have been killed, over the many years.  I was a volunteer EMT, so I feel his family's pain.  If we included all such articles, we would be buried in trivia.  It's actually more fair to delete all those articles of such ilk.  We can't have memorial articles on every person who meets a tragic death; everyone's untimely death is tragic.  If you wish to spread the news of the scholarship, there are much better ways to do so.  Have you tried facebook, LinkedIn, a website for EMTs, or the Nova Scotia government?  For example, the province grants funds for equipment; University of Maine at Fort Kent provides scholarships for students going into EMS even internationally; the Department of Justice provides scholarships to First Canadians; and the N.S. Ombudsman has a great facebook page you should check out.  Those are much more effective soapboxes for what you have in mind. Bearian (talk) 19:12, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:ONEEVENT. While there are circumstances where dying can in and of itself make a person notable enough for a Wikipedia article who wasn't notable in life, they generally involve murder trials or other circumstances that keep the person's name in the news for an extended period of time — but those aren't present here, and Wikipedia does not exist to memorialize the dead for the sake of memorializing the dead. In addition to Bearian's excellent suggestions above, I'd suggest that if it can be properly sourced, an article about the scholarship would stand a much better chance of passing muster. Bearcat (talk) 19:34, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Bearian (talk) 19:42, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete Per N and ONEEVENT. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 23:03, 7 June 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.