Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spring Valley High School police incident


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The result was delete. Not sufficiently notable for a standalone article, per consensus, and there's already a well-sourced account of the incident at Spring Valley High School (South Carolina). –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:26, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Spring Valley High School police incident

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Very poorly executed fork of an existing article (Spring Valley High School (South Carolina)). It is possible that this incident may someday be notable (I'll even weakly concede it may be now), but this article at hand is so full of POV and BLP violation as to warrant TNT. The vast majority of sources are from the time of the incident. The only more recent sources discuss a lawsuit being filed (which is not something we would normally discuss without one of the parties being notable and a ton of sourcing) and one is an op-ed, unusable for our purposes. I still don't think this clears NOTNEWS, but if it does, we should start over. Under no circumstances would I advocate a merge to the school as there is already too much about this there (per RECENT). John from Idegon (talk) 03:39, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete I've edited the article to try and address some of the neutrality issues and bring it up to date (in the event no-one was prosecuted over the incident). However on balance I believe it's just not notable enough. Neiltonks (talk) 14:21, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge / Redirect to Spring Valley High School (South Carolina) There appears to be no independent notability for the incident at this point, based on the sourcing in the article and what I see from a Google search. Merge whatever encyclopedic content is here to the school article and turn this title into a redirect. Alansohn (talk) 18:03, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect as per Alansohn, I'm not sure if the sourcing is adequate to pass NOTNEWS. GABgab 15:36, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect I think most of the relevant information has been covered in the school's article, and this incident does not merit the gigantic wall of text that's currently on the page. Primefac (talk) 17:24, 23 December 2016 (UTC)


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