Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shawn Woolley (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   redirect to Everquest. A fairly clear WP:BLP1E. A brief mention in the main article may be appropriate. Black Kite 11:25, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Shawn Woolley
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Poorly sourced article that appears to violate WP:ONEEVENT and WP:NOTNEWS. This individual committed suicide in 2001 and this event was briefly reported in the news. There is no evidence that it has had any lasting impact on anything. There simply isn't enough here for a decent biography, and never will be. *** Crotalus *** 15:40, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete It's not poorly sourced, but per BLP1E, we shouldn't have this. Maybe a paragraph in the WoW Ever crack quest article explaining any real-world fallout for the game from the suicide? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:03, 13 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect into an apporpriate World of Warcraft related article. There was enough information here that it should be covered in here, but not enough to justify an article of its own. Umbralcorax (talk) 16:10, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Correction, Everquest, not World of Warcraft. Umbralcorax (talk) 16:12, 13 July 2009 (UTC)


 * No contest I doubt this person and the event that surrounds him is notable, because personally I could only find one or two news reports where it has a brief mention or Liz Woolley playing a minor role. I haven't even heard of Everquest let alone Shawn Woolley until I found it on Wikipedia. If Wikipedia is the major news source for a particular event, then that's a bad sign. But anyway, I think this should remain in Wikipedia because it's a rather unique event and one of the earliest sparks that paved the way towards the video game controversies today. The only problem is that his mother is the only major source so we can either deal with an article with lots of unverifiable detail or a totally sparse entry that may as well just be merged into a "game addiction" article of some sort where it gets a brief mention. I don't know what to say, keep I guess.--Spectatorbot13 (talk) 21:17, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * That's exactly the point here -- you think the event is notable, but not the person. Hence, BLP1E, which should be a delete result, or at most a merge to an event article.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:24, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, I stand corrected. Merge and redirect--Spectatorbot13 (talk) 04:14, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I could possibly see including it in the Everquest page, but then I also lean towards this page staying. This page was already nominated once and it was kept. I think Lizwol needs to stop attacking people and stop posting unverified content and this article will be fine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 0pen$0urce (talk • contribs) 11:02, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't see the notability in the person or the event. Niteshift36 (talk) 14:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to EverQuest. Alefbe (talk) 17:58, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep It's true that this article is lacking sources, but that's not due to a lack of notability of the topic. There's plenty of Google Scholar and News Archive results (the news archive results show persistent coverage, arguing against the applicability of BLP1E). If I had about 10 hours to work on it, I could easily write an encyclopedic article on this topic. Should the admin who decides this AfD not see it my way, it would probably be better to follow the suggestion in BLP1E and create an article along the lines of Deaths related to computer gaming from merging this article with Lee Seung Seop. -- Scarpy (talk) 00:38, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep it, but keep it short
 * Another strong keep, even if it is short for now From what I have seen, Shawn's suicide has a lot of notability due to things like its press coverage at the time, it being one of the first of a number of suicides and deaths that appear to be linked to excessive video game playing, and the effect that it had on his mother, including her creating Online Gamers Anonymous (OLGA) that provides extensive support for gamers who play excessively, as well as their family and friends, with the organization being one of the very oldest, largest and best organized in existence. Also, I believe that there are quite a few quite links to Shawn's article that will either become broken or need to be changed as well.  As far as notability goes compared to other Wikipedia articles, I have for example seen many articles dealing with single television episodes of shows.  IMHO, the impact of Shawn's suicide is far more than virtually any single television show episode.  Finally, to the admin(s) who will decide, please review the comments made during the first request to delete since I think that most, if not all, of them are still relevant now. JoDOe (talk) 12:22, 16 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete WP:NOTNEWS. A mention maybe in Everquest, maybe. ( talk→   BWilkins   ←track ) 09:38, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.