Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marine Park, Brooklyn racial attack


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 14:58, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Marine Park, Brooklyn racial attack

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Well I'm usually pretty inclusionist, but there are a couple of problems with this article.

1) It's really just a middle school playground fight. Nobody was hurt (except feelings) and the the five "perps" were sentenced to probation. It's really just sub-notable. However, it does meet the WP:GNG (there are "multiple" (two) refs "in depth" (full articles) in notable/reliable sources (NY Post, Village Voice), and since we're not paper, I'd say it's not hurting anyone, but...

2) ...the title is wrong. It wasn't a "racial attack". It was a fight (I gather) between girls from two schools in a de-facto segregated system (black public school girls, white private school girls). So on that level it was racial, but... I mean there is such a thing as black people attacking white people because of their race, but it kind of trivializes that phenomena to include playground fights... if it is to be kept it should probably be moved to "Marine Park middle school playground fight of March 30, 2005" or something... maybe "That one time some white private-school moms got butt-hurt and tried to make a federal case out of a playground fight", which is really what the main ref (Village Voice) supports. Enh, it's too much trouble and I don't see the article is being worthwhile under any name.

N.B. Here is an abstract of the NY Post ref which the url in the article is broken. Herostratus (talk) 15:32, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. North America1000 18:19, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America1000 18:19, 26 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete: does not meet WP:NCRIME; no lasting significance or societal impact. K.e.coffman (talk) 00:21, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete as per K.e.coffman's rationale, which hits it on the head.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:01, 3 August 2018 (UTC)


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