Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Parent


 * 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   merge to Charles Manson. Or, at editorial discretion, to a new article to be created. Stifle (talk) 10:00, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Steven Parent

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Simply put, this biography of a crime victim seems to fail WP:VICTIM ("The victim... had a large role within a well-documented historic event. The historic significance is indicated by persistent coverage of the event in reliable secondary sources that devote significant attention to the individual's role"). All sources I see mention him in passing; if he hasn't been killed by Manson, his life up to that point wouldn't make her notable. Per said policy ("A person who is known only in connection with a criminal event or trial should not normally be the subject of a separate Wikipedia article if there is an existing article that could incorporate the available encyclopedic material relating to that person.") the one-two relevant sentences should be merged to Charles_Manson if the facts aren't there already (now, the Tate murders article should likely be split off into a subarticle, but that's another issue). See related AfDs at Articles for deletion/Abigail Folger and Articles for deletion/Jay Sebring. Pinging participants of the former: Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  09:51, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:50, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:50, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
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 * Merge, either to the Manson article or to a yet-to-be-written Tate murders article. See also related discussion at Articles for deletion/Wojciech Frykowski. --MelanieN (talk) 23:05, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd go for a keep - based on the fact that, in his death, his parents raised an important issue: class consciousness. Bearian (talk) 22:51, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Is that in the article? --MelanieN (talk) 22:58, 9 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment In these related AfDs, several people have suggested that a merge to a new article Tate murders would be better than a merge to Charles Manson. See Talk:Charles Manson to discuss this idea. MelanieN (talk) 23:15, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge for now. I would probably support a seperate article on the Tate Murders, but that can be done no matter what we decided here.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
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