Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scarborough crossbow attack


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The result was delete. Joyous! | Talk 00:27, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Scarborough crossbow attack

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WP:NOTNEWS. This is an unfortunate event, but it is an isolated criminal attack and does not warrant an article on Wikipedia.  PK T (alk)  00:52, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
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 * delete as non-notable crime.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:11, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Every criminal incident that happens at all is not automatically a valid article topic on Wikipedia just because of the inevitable blip of "as it's happening" coverage in the local media. I live in Toronto, so I obviously remember this quite well, but Wikipedia is WP:NOTNEWS — for something like this to qualify for a Wikipedia article, there would have to be some indication that it satisfies the ten-year test, which nothing written or sourced here does. And the limited media coverage since isn't adding anything compelling either: the victims were his own mother and brothers, so this was a conventional murder and not an "attack" in the way we normally use that term, and the "suspicious package" was a false alarm that permanently disappeared from any further mention as soon as the bomb squad went home. So as sad as the incident was, there's no discernible reason why 2026 would need this article to exist. Bearcat (talk) 17:58, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, as WP:NOTNEWS. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:02, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:09, 24 November 2016 (UTC)


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