Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London Home Office stabbing


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The result was delete. Routine stabbing. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 01:07, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

London Home Office stabbing

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Clear-cut case of WP:NOTNEWS: there is nothing here of any lasting importance, just a mildly sensational crime that generated some at-the-moment news coverage. The entire article reads like a contemporaneous news report, and that's because there's nothing encyclopedic to say about this topic. JBL (talk) 00:37, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Nothing really of note happened. Knife attacks in London happen all the time, and yes, this was a high profile location, nothing really of note came from it. It wasn't very earth shattering and tbh even as a Brit I've never even heard of this event. Ed6767 (talk) 02:15, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Location, location, location may be of utmost importance for real estate, but not so much for this particular crime, plus the victim didn't even suffer a life-threatening injury. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:19, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I was nearby when this happened; it wasn't remotely significant. This article seems to be a good-faith misunderstanding of routine local reporting to draw the conclusion that it was more significant than it was—e.g. the London Ambulance Service's "We treated a man at the scene and took him to a major trauma centre" doesn't mean "the injuries were major" but is their boilerplate text for "we took the injured party to A&E", while "For a time after the suspect was arrested, a cordon and police presence remained around the Home Office" doesn't mean they were treating it as some kind of major incident, but is just a description of the routine taping-off of a crime scene until it's been photographed and cleaned up. London is a city of 10 million which includes its share of people who are mentally ill, high on drugs, or carrying a personal grudge; random attacks in which someone gets hurt are unfortunately fairly routine, and happening outside a building full of civil servants doesn't somehow confer notability. &#8209; Iridescent 07:53, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per Nom and Iridescent: I was on a 507 at the time.  ——  SN  54129  09:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. It is significant that the news coverage that appears when searching for sources is all dated 15 August – the day of the attack – apart from two or three notices from a few days later, saying the suspect had been charged. Clear case of a non-notable event per WP:NOTNEWS. (I was in Dublin at the time and did not exactly keep up with the news, but the main daily paper in Sweden didn't even mention it. The London Bridge attack on the other hand was covered in all the news here. This does not in itself mean it's not notable, but it all points in the same direction.) --bonadea contributions talk 11:24, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: per the nomination, Clarityfiend, Iridescent — there is no indication of lasting importance. &mdash; Javert2113 (Siarad.&#124;&#164;) 14:12, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Not a notable event and no lasting or significant impact (wp:event). --Steve Quinn (talk) 21:09, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete--another example of an incident that fails per NOTNEWS. Drmies (talk) 00:42, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete NOTNEWS. MistyGraceWhite (talk) 13:46, 5 May 2020 (UTC)


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