Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Denise "Dee Dee" Walker case


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The result was merge to Willie Earl Green.  Sandstein  06:51, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

The Denise "Dee Dee" Walker case

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Murder case which appears to be non-notable per WP:NCRIME. Little major coverage aside from the CNN article.  Dr Strauss   talk   15:50, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:36, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Question Based on the article, which includes the reversal of aan erroneous conviction for murder, there should be extensive news coverage. It's not in the present article. Has the nom. done the required WP:BEFORE search?  DGG ( talk ) 02:36, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge to Willie Earl Green (whose exoneration seems to make this notable). There is some more coverage (including a whole book - with the exonerated man as an author (though it seems he wasn't the main author), written incidentally after the Wikipedia article):      . If kept standalone - it needs to be renamed (e.g. Murder of Denise Walker).Icewhiz (talk) 10:01, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete this and Willie Earl Green. My news archive searches on the murder found nothing.  I'm not saying that there might not have bee a news story that I missed despite using a variety of keywords, only that there couldn't have been much.  What did come up was a BLP1E-type flurry on Green's exoneration.  The Los Angeles Times reported the story, Green always maintained he was innocent, kept his nose clean in prison, got an associate degree, worked in the prison library and married his penpal - all while in prison.   He had been convicted based on the sole testimony of an eye-witness who was high on cocaine at the time of the murder; also police had falsely informed the witness that Green had previously been convicted of stealing from the murder victim.  Judge therefore ruled that Green did not receive a fair trial.  Sum total of coverage appears to have been two news stories in the Los Angeles Times, neither very long.  Plus an AP story and a UPI story that got picked up by a number of newspapers.  All in March 2008.  It is a story that tugs at the heartstrings.  But I am not persuaded that either the murder victim or the falsely assused man are notable.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:37, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - (Note: I'll accept if this is a merge but a redirect is not helpful for this unlikely search term) A tragic turn of events but this clearly falls under WP:NOTNEWS. I just cannot find the significant and WP:DIVERSE coverage necessary to argue a level of notability.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 19:06, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge to Willie Earl Green. As a stand-alone crime, it was not notable; as a condition it is. Bearian (talk) 13:50, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:58, 5 September 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jax 0677 (talk) 16:56, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge per above arguments, though possibly the resulting article should be named to reflect a focus on the case and not the people, per WP:1E? Artw (talk) 22:52, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge per Bearian. The murder is not exceptional but the semi-exoneration is. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:25, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment. It looks like this is heading towards a merge.  Normally, after such a merge, the title would be redirected to the merge target.  In this case, it's such an unlikely search term, that seems pointless.  However, moving this to Dee Dee Walker or Denise Walker, and then redirecting that title would make a lot more sense.  -- RoySmith (talk) 00:43, 13 September 2017 (UTC)


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