Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Sweet (police officer)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:26, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Michael Sweet (police officer)

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Unfortunately, this policeman who was killed while on duty does not satisfy WP:BIO. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:ANYBIO CerealKillerYum (talk) 03:15, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Kyle1278 (talk) 09:54, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:SOAP (his daughter is mentioned as pushing for benefits due to his death) and WP:MILL (most service-related deaths of peace officers do not make them notable, and, sadly, they are all too common). Bearian (talk) 17:56, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable by the standards of WP:BIO or WP:GNG.--Ddcm8991 (talk) 18:15, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as none of this suggests any applicably better for notability. Unlikely anything better also to improve the article information-wise. SwisterTwister   talk  06:03, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep as per WP:GNG: massive, detailed news coverage over the course 3 1/2 decades. A 36-year-old murder of a Toronto police officer with horrific detail (held hostage, tormented and taunted by his killer as he bled to death) seemed to have enough probability of passing WP:GNG to make me run a Proquest news archive search.  The search turned up far more coverage than I expected.  Not only was the event and trial covered in-depth, but 30 years later the mooted probation of the killer provoked an editorial in Winnipeg, which is  a long way from Toronto.  The first page simplest google search   on "Michael Sweet" + Toronto turns up sources that carry this crim past WP:GNG, , such as this 2012 story . And coverage  continues in a current (2016) debate on which officers to list on an official police memorial.  This is not a borderline case.  It is the kind of crime that we keep because of enduring coverage, including discussion of this well-known crime in policy debates re:parole and police memorials.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:27, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - unsourced and Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Electoralist (talk) 02:44, 5 May 2016 (UTC)


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