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Keep - Lynching victims are often an uncomfortalbe topic for people. So I feel it is important to expand upon lynching that have newscoverage. As shown by the sources in the article, this African-American lynching victim received media coverage when the event happened. Article is a start article and will be expanded upon as more details are found --
Thats Just Great (
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14:40, 10 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Rename to
Lynching of Jim McMillan -It really does seem to be a case of
WP:BIO1E. Three of the sources are just very brief news blurbs written in the immediate aftermath of the murderers' arrests, one is just the victims' name in a list, and the last is not about the victim at all, and is about the Red Summer in general. Although certainly tragic, there is not much demonstrating notability for the individual outside of the reports of his lynching. Alternatively, I could support a Merge to
Red Summer, if it can be done without going against
WP:UNDUE.
Rorshacma (
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15:25, 10 September 2019 (UTC)reply
I can support renaming the article, and shifting the focus to the incident rather than the individual, as suggested below. I have changed my recommendation accordingly.
Rorshacma (
talk)
Comment. No opinion as yet on the notability of this subject, but there's no way this is the primary topic for 'Jim McMillan', and if kept it needs to be moved to a disambiguated title and this article restored to being a redirect to
James McMillan. If deleted, a redirect should be retained. --
Michig (
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16:54, 10 September 2019 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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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.
Keep - Lynching victims are often an uncomfortalbe topic for people. So I feel it is important to expand upon lynching that have newscoverage. As shown by the sources in the article, this African-American lynching victim received media coverage when the event happened. Article is a start article and will be expanded upon as more details are found --
Thats Just Great (
talk)
14:40, 10 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Rename to
Lynching of Jim McMillan -It really does seem to be a case of
WP:BIO1E. Three of the sources are just very brief news blurbs written in the immediate aftermath of the murderers' arrests, one is just the victims' name in a list, and the last is not about the victim at all, and is about the Red Summer in general. Although certainly tragic, there is not much demonstrating notability for the individual outside of the reports of his lynching. Alternatively, I could support a Merge to
Red Summer, if it can be done without going against
WP:UNDUE.
Rorshacma (
talk)
15:25, 10 September 2019 (UTC)reply
I can support renaming the article, and shifting the focus to the incident rather than the individual, as suggested below. I have changed my recommendation accordingly.
Rorshacma (
talk)
Comment. No opinion as yet on the notability of this subject, but there's no way this is the primary topic for 'Jim McMillan', and if kept it needs to be moved to a disambiguated title and this article restored to being a redirect to
James McMillan. If deleted, a redirect should be retained. --
Michig (
talk)
16:54, 10 September 2019 (UTC)reply
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