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I don't know if there's a protocol for whether pages such as this are appropriate or not. The incident has (obviously) been covered rigorously in local (and national) media, and as a veteran Wikipedian it strikes me as obviously notable, and there will be no difficulty filling it with citations to reliable sources. I am using Shooting of Michael Brown as a template from which to proceed.
I live in Madison (and teach at Sun Prairie High School, where Mr. Robinson graduated in 2014, although I never met him), and as an experienced Wikipedian, I would very much like to have a WP article to collect all the wildly disparate information people are hurling about. Scartol • Tok 15:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Its actually a biracial man that was shot. A black man was not shot in this case. 2602:306:BDEC:DF20:25EC:6BE2:BA6D:B08F ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 21:51, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
This article was prodded with the following rationale:
"no major lasting impact or led to other ramifications unlike the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others. Coverage of this shooting basically stopped after a few days and no new information has been revealed"
I tend to agree but I wanted a straw poll to get more opinions. Anybody else have thoughts? Centrify (f / k / a Factchecker_blah_blah_blah) (talk) (contribs) 12:36, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
It did slow down significantly, but is going to flare up again today. WP:NOTTEMPORARY seems to argue for keeping, but one could also argue WP:ROUTINE in the other direction. I think I would probably land at a "weak keep" at AFD. Gaijin42 ( talk) 14:25, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Why was Robinson labeled Mulato? Not only does race seem unimportant, the link itself states "the term is generally considered archaic in the United States by some and inadvertently derogatory". It certainly seems less relevant than the fact that Robinson was previously convicted of Armed Robbery. 70.50.237.250 ( talk) 18:45, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
I revised the event section and added a new source which had a better description of what happened. Titanium Dragon ( talk) 08:24, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Article used to mention fragment from a Daily Mail article in the "Background" section.
Daily Mail is a tabloid peddling sensationalist garbage, and even Wikipedia article on DM says so:
"The Daily Mail has been widely criticized for its unreliability, as well as printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research[11][12][13][14][15] and of copyright violations.[16]".
Ironically, 6 different sources that verify DM's reliability problems is 6 more than average Daily Mail article...
In light of that, I removed that fragment as per WP:QUESTIONABLE. Shinobody ( talk) 13:49, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
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I don't know if there's a protocol for whether pages such as this are appropriate or not. The incident has (obviously) been covered rigorously in local (and national) media, and as a veteran Wikipedian it strikes me as obviously notable, and there will be no difficulty filling it with citations to reliable sources. I am using Shooting of Michael Brown as a template from which to proceed.
I live in Madison (and teach at Sun Prairie High School, where Mr. Robinson graduated in 2014, although I never met him), and as an experienced Wikipedian, I would very much like to have a WP article to collect all the wildly disparate information people are hurling about. Scartol • Tok 15:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Its actually a biracial man that was shot. A black man was not shot in this case. 2602:306:BDEC:DF20:25EC:6BE2:BA6D:B08F ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 21:51, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
This article was prodded with the following rationale:
"no major lasting impact or led to other ramifications unlike the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others. Coverage of this shooting basically stopped after a few days and no new information has been revealed"
I tend to agree but I wanted a straw poll to get more opinions. Anybody else have thoughts? Centrify (f / k / a Factchecker_blah_blah_blah) (talk) (contribs) 12:36, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
It did slow down significantly, but is going to flare up again today. WP:NOTTEMPORARY seems to argue for keeping, but one could also argue WP:ROUTINE in the other direction. I think I would probably land at a "weak keep" at AFD. Gaijin42 ( talk) 14:25, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Why was Robinson labeled Mulato? Not only does race seem unimportant, the link itself states "the term is generally considered archaic in the United States by some and inadvertently derogatory". It certainly seems less relevant than the fact that Robinson was previously convicted of Armed Robbery. 70.50.237.250 ( talk) 18:45, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
I revised the event section and added a new source which had a better description of what happened. Titanium Dragon ( talk) 08:24, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Article used to mention fragment from a Daily Mail article in the "Background" section.
Daily Mail is a tabloid peddling sensationalist garbage, and even Wikipedia article on DM says so:
"The Daily Mail has been widely criticized for its unreliability, as well as printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research[11][12][13][14][15] and of copyright violations.[16]".
Ironically, 6 different sources that verify DM's reliability problems is 6 more than average Daily Mail article...
In light of that, I removed that fragment as per WP:QUESTIONABLE. Shinobody ( talk) 13:49, 20 March 2018 (UTC)