Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenneth Regan (murderer)


 * 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   delete. Tone 22:44, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Kenneth Regan (murderer)

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See WP:BLP1E. Wikipedia shouldn't be a publisher of true crime accounts. This person has no historical significance that would merit an article, nor are there any truly biographical sources (where he, rather than the one event he gained notoriety for, is the subject of the source). He committed a murder that was briefly the subject of news reports, and that is all. But Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Delete. Dominic·t 02:41, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. As Dominic says. Kevin (talk) 05:41, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unremarkable local criminal. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Move to Murder of Amarjit Chohan and tag for clean-up. The murders were, of course, one event, however, they were not "unremarkable" and they have been addressed more than briefly in local publications. Referred to as "high-profile murders of millionaire businessman Amarjit Chohan" and family: . GNews also indicates substantial coverage across the UK and India, as well as a Chicago paper. Even reported in an Air Cargo trade publication: . There are a couple write-ups about the murders in a book analyzing the khat trade here and business security here. Ordinary murders don't get this coverage. Location (talk) 21:54, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * You don't need to vote in an AfD if you would like to write an article about the event; you can just do it. A four-sentence biographical stub is not going to be "moved" to an article about an event. You are talking about an article which needs to be written from scratch. Dominic·t 22:58, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm recommending what I think should be done, not voting. It doesn't appear that you or the other two editors recommending delete were aware of the coverage of this event. Location (talk) 23:07, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * You're missing the point. This is not an event; it is a biography. It may be true that there is enough coverage of an event to write an article about it, but this article is not it, and moving it to that name makes more sense. Even if the event had an article, this biographical article would still be unwarranted because of the lack of biographical sources for the subject of the article. Dominic·t 02:44, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Evil saltine (talk) 08:43, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.  —Location (talk) 23:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge. Though not mentioned in the article itself, the subject is one of only 50 offenders in the UK to be issued a whole life tariff. This is remarkable enough to justify inclusion in Wikipedia. Consider merging with this article: List of prisoners with life tariffs  --Whoosit (talk) 00:20, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete per nom. B.Rossow talk contr 17:34, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - not notable, minor criminal New seeker (talk) 12:09, 22 September 2009 (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.