Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Titus


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Erik9 (talk) 04:52, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Steve Titus

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Article about a wrongfully convicted individual who appears to otherwise completely unremarkable (see WP:BLP1E). Although the story of this wrongful conviction won a Pulitzer Prize for "Local Investigative Specialized Reporting", this amounts to a short sentence in the article and the author's name is incorrect. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 11:15, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with the nom's findings. ChildofMidnight (talk) 14:34, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep per rename. ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:03, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Reason for delete is wrong. The man is dead so WP:BLP1E is incorrect; the L in BLP stands for living people.  The man/event was so notable that a book was written on it and he was a source of a Pulitzer Prize.  If people want to retitle the article, it's ok with me but to kill it is not right.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Murder_of_David_Lynn_Harris gives us some guidance as a book was written on that except that it did not win a Pulitzer Prize.  That other article was kept. The reasoning for that article gives us guidance (and no "other crap exists" excuse"; the other stuff is given for guidance not as a "me too" proposal) Acme Plumbing (talk) 03:43, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If it was renamed to be about the case I could probably live with it although I think it needs some clean up. If the story won a pullitzer prize I think that's a pretty good indication of notability, but not necessarily for the person what was the subject of the story, but for the story itself. ChildofMidnight (talk) 03:46, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Suggest name change to "Conviction of Steve Titus" (or possibly "Wrongful conviction of Steve Titus") Acme Plumbing (talk) 03:56, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Wrongful conviction of Steve Titus is okay with me. It should be a bit more about the story winning a pullitzer perhaps, and less a play by play. ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:03, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. Rename may be justified, but topic is clearly notable. Subject of a Pulitzer-winning series of articles, discussed in detail in this book. Bongo  matic  06:44, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
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