Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smithsburg shooting


 * 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 delete.  Arbitrarily0  ( talk ) 09:53, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Smithsburg shooting

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Zero evidence of any lasting effects or impact over a large geographic area. This was a local shooting of minor importance. Veggies (talk) 16:46, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime, Firearms,  and Maryland. Veggies (talk) 16:46, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Leaning keep. It's a newsworthy event. Notable in that sense. Will it have lasting impact? It's too early to tell. But I think keep, no harm in keeping it up considering how newsworthy and notable it is right now. We can revisit this later if there is not sustained or lasting coverage. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/us/maryland-shooting-columbia-machine/index.html CT55555 (talk) 17:11, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime and Maryland. Shellwood (talk) 17:33, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:17, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. Love of Corey (talk) 00:37, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as a strictly breaking news story (WP:NOTNEWS). Already covered in List of mass shootings in the United States in 2022, where shootings this deadly happen almost weekly and mass shootings are an almost everyday event. • Gene93k (talk) 01:02, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just because it is a mass shooting doesn't make it very notable. There has been many mass shootings recently with the same number of victims without a article and the article itself has no references. `~HelpingWorld~` (👽🛸) 01:54, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Only in America, alone in the Western world, could the murder of three people be described as "a local shooting of minor importance"! Mass killings are notable even in America. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:04, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It's not a judgement over the victims&mdash;it's simply a statement relative to the Wikipedia guidelines. In a country of 330 million people with 400 million private firearms, this is not a notable event. -- Veggies (talk) 14:33, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Workplace shooting by an aggrieved employee. No socio-political motive evident, no lasting significance. We don't need an article every time three people are killed. WWGB (talk) 03:55, 16 June 2022 (UTC)


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