Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wytheville hostage incident


 * 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.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 02:51, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Wytheville hostage incident

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Just another run of the mill hostage incident. No one died, and nothing Earth changing came as a result of this. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 21:25, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:18, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:18, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Wytheville, Virginia. This is inappropriate for an independent article (WP:NOTNEWS), but the article about the town would be improved by more information about historical events. EALacey (talk) 23:26, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, delete. It would be disproportionate for Wytheville, Virginia to include more than two or three sentences on this story, so there's no real need for a merge. EALacey (talk) 23:37, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are currently 28 news stories cataloged at Google News referring to "Wytheville hostage" over a span of three days. This constitutes significant coverage in mainstream media sources assumed to be reliable per WP:GNG. (Current sources include the New York Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, CBS News, and other known reliable outlets.) Cnilep (talk) 01:07, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * By today's standards, 28 sites could be all the newspapers in New England. A hostage incident is likely to garner attention, but since nobody died, it really isn't notable. I'm not arguing that people need to be killed in order to make something notable, but most, if not all of the hostage incidents that we have here include a death or two. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:06, 27 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Minor local story that is almost the definition of WP:NOTNEWS. 28 articles in Google News does not prove notability; for comparison, there are currently 189 articles in Google News about the extremely minor and totally unencyclopedic snowstorm that hit here yesterday. --NellieBly (talk) 02:18, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Yeah...I created this article, and I left some comments on the talk page as to my views. I noted that I wouldn't oppose deleting it if no more information came up, but given that there are still stories coming out about it at Google News, as noted by Cnilep, it would seem that interest has not gone away, and it would be premature at best to delete the page. And there are still major sources running stories on it. Link to a New York Times article on the incident, posted the 25th-http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/us/26hostage.html?_r=1. C628 (talk) 19:14, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Let's see how things develop. The story is certainly much more than a couple dozen articlces now, numbering in the thousands according to Google. -- Yekrats (talk) 04:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - a sad story, but not notable. Luckily, noone died. Bearian (talk) 05:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - It's news, not an encyclopedia article. Shadowjams (talk)
 * Weak delete despite the NYT story cited a little above. Relatively trivial news, none the less. !If someone had been killed, I would have voted otherwise. There may be some political implications, but I do not yet see them discussed.  My suggestion from this and similar discussions, which have been yielding inconsistent results,  is we need to re-consider the meaning of NOT NEWS, and the criteria being used for it.   DGG ( talk ) 23:39, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
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