Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richland High School shooting


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Mediran  ( t  •  c ) 03:35, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Richland High School shooting

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Wikipedia is WP:NOTNEWS. Not every tragic event should have an article. Reywas92 Talk 04:35, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep This shooting received a lot of coverage, not just in the aftermath of the shooting. See this lengthy article in the LA Times five years after the event, a few paragraphs in this 2000 The New York Times article cited in our article, and coverage, and coverage in a CBS news article from 2007. None of these are news stories in the sense that they are not covering a recent event about the case, but rather discussing the case as an example of a school shooting, and none of these are less than 5 years after the event. I think these articles add up to WP:GNG for me, and demonstrate that WP:NOTNEWSPAPER doesn't apply here. Editors may wish to use the name of the perpetrator as a better search term than that listed above. Quasihuman (talk • contribs) 10:36, 19 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep, sources demonstrate notability. Everyking (talk) 13:33, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - Multiple national published sources, including the New York Times, indicate considerable significance outside basic news reportage of the event itself. School shootings have broad academic and political policy interest as well. Carrite (talk) 17:48, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence of lasting notability nor significance. Also, NOTNEWS  -- No  unique  names  03:40, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sources and coverage show notability. — Theo polisme  14:29, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:59, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:59, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:59, 21 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep. I looked at the first cited reference, and found that it was a New York Times retrospective piece on rampage murders, published 5 years after this particular shooting. This shooting is one of the cases that receives the most attention in the piece. That published coverage, by itself, demonstrates to me that this is not an ephemeral news item, but a notable event. WP:NOTNEWS doesn't apply here. --Orlady (talk) 22:39, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
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