Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder of Olly Stephens


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. – bradv 🍁  23:17, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Murder of Olly Stephens

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I had it in my mind to create this article when I first heard about the crime, because I figured that after the legal restrictions were lifted, there would be significant media frenzy about the murder of a child by three other children - particularly as it wasn't a gang related incident like most of that age are. However, even since the verdict, there has been very little commentary on this case. The perpetrators and anonymised due to their age, but such perpetrators can still be written about in the media in a non-identifying way - I remember the Edlington attacks by children being the subject of much media and political debate. The Murder of James Bulger is among the most well-documented in British history. But there is very little media, political or legal commentary on the murder of Stephens, nor are there books, TV shows or films about the crime. Nothing against an innocent young man who should never have died, but I don't see WP:SIGCOV covered in sources (where I've looked on Google) apart from documenting the process from arrest to courtroom. Unknown Temptation (talk) 14:06, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:34, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:34, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 17:40, 28 August 2021 (UTC)


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