Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lindsey Baum


 * 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.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 22:54, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Lindsey Baum

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The article Lindsey Baum has little information about the girl that went missing on June 26, 2009, which was more than a year ago and most of the information is about her movements on the day she went missing and the search efforts that occurred roughly to about a month after she went missing. The sources referenced on this article are low quality, which are from about a year ago, and there hasn't been any new information circulating about the case for many months now. I believe notability is a huge issue here because this girl doesn't seem to stand out from other people that have gone missing. Also, this article was proposed for a speedy deletion on the day that it was created, but the proposal was removed so that the article could be improved and about a year has gone by without any significant improvement. Zipotur (talk) 15:57, 6 July 2010 (UTC) Delete - Agreed that this qualified as WP:ONEEVENT. Publicity in such a disappearance is good, but that's not wikipedia's role. Vartanza (talk) 00:20, 12 July 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Actually, I'm glad you nominated this one, since any attention on a missing child case is good, and this one should be updated.  Regarding notability, it easily passes, see  and .  The only thing different I would recommend is that it should be moved to Kidnapping of Lindsey Baum.  Hopefully, there will be an extended debate and a no consensus, rather than a snowball.  Mandsford 16:22, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - WP:ONEEVENT. We're not a news service and we're not a venue to help find missing people. Tarc (talk) 17:41, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep but move to Disappearance of Lindsey Baum, since that is how the FBI described it in an extensive piece on ABC Nightline in March 2010. Numerous reliable and independent news channels, magazines and newspapers have given the disappearance significant coverage from the time of the event until the present. She was on the cover of People magazine, and had extensive coverage on news channels far beyond the time of disappearance. Per Google News Archive, The disappearance received coverage on national TV on ABC, CBS, MSNBC and Fox. The FBI continued a task force investigation in March 2010, with investigators and profilors. They compiled a database of every ATM video and every celphone transmission around the time of the disappearance, and interviewed 2/3 of the town residents, many 2 or 3 times. The FBI says that about 800,000 children a year in the US are abducted by family members or run away, but that 100 to 200 are abducted by strangers. They are not treating this disappearance of a 10 year old as a runaway or a family custody dispute. We should not delete an article just because no one has bothered to add more recent sources. Edison (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:17, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete, per WP:NOTNEWS and WP:ONEEVENT. - Reconsider !  02:21, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, agree with Reconsider the static.
 * 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.