Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Smith (murderer)


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The result was   delete. — Jake   Wartenberg  03:00, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Michael Smith (murderer)

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See WP:BLP1E. Wikipedia shouldn't be a publisher of true crime stories. 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 we are not a newspaper. Delete. Dominic·t 10:42, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not a directory of everyone convicted of murder. A one-off killing is not the stuff encyclopedias are made of. Fails WP:N and WP:BIO. Edison (talk) 18:36, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: A regular murderer. Joe Chill (talk) 20:39, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; no evidence of substantial notability that goes beyond WP:NOTNEWS. We can't write a comprehensive biography of this person if all we know about him is that he committed a murder while on parole for another criminal offense. Clear case of WP:ONEEVENT. *** Crotalus *** 21:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, textbook WP:BLP1E case. Lankiveil (speak to me) 00:16, 12 September 2009 (UTC).
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.  —Location (talk) 04:05, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
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