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IMO this subject does not meet our criteria for inclusion. Virtually all the coverage was timely and local. There was not major national interest, coverage was not persistent, and the case does not appear to have had any lasting impact. A tragic story, but not suitable for inclusion in an encyclopedia.
MelanieN (
talk) 14:52, 27 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment. I have no objection to merging and redirecting
Martin MacNeill and
Michele Marie Somers to
Murder of Michele MacNeill. The notability of the individuals is dependent upon the event, and the event (i.e. murder and trial, etc.) certainly has received national and some international coverage, and appears to pass the various guidelines in
WP:EVENT. Unfortunately, I have no interest in creating or re-working the merge target. -
Location (
talk) 18:06, 27 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment If the result is to keep this material, I certainly agree with
User:Location that it should be combined into a single article titled
Murder of Michele MacNeill. That is the usual Wikipedia practice, reflecting the understanding that it is the crime itself that is notable - rather than the victim or the perpetrator, whose only claim to notability is their connection to the crime. If this course is chosen, I would recommend that the other article, Martin MacNeill, be moved to the new title, because it has a much more significant article history. The contents of this article should then be merged and redirected to the "Murder of" article. A redirect titled
Michele MacNeill should also be created. --
MelanieN (
talk) 09:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Withdraw nomination Based on discussion here and at the other AfD, I withdraw my "delete" nomination and change it to "Merge/Redirect to an article called Murder of Michele MacNeill". We already have a volunteer to carry out the process. --
MelanieN (
talk) 14:16, 28 September 2014 (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
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
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.
IMO this subject does not meet our criteria for inclusion. Virtually all the coverage was timely and local. There was not major national interest, coverage was not persistent, and the case does not appear to have had any lasting impact. A tragic story, but not suitable for inclusion in an encyclopedia.
MelanieN (
talk) 14:52, 27 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment. I have no objection to merging and redirecting
Martin MacNeill and
Michele Marie Somers to
Murder of Michele MacNeill. The notability of the individuals is dependent upon the event, and the event (i.e. murder and trial, etc.) certainly has received national and some international coverage, and appears to pass the various guidelines in
WP:EVENT. Unfortunately, I have no interest in creating or re-working the merge target. -
Location (
talk) 18:06, 27 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment If the result is to keep this material, I certainly agree with
User:Location that it should be combined into a single article titled
Murder of Michele MacNeill. That is the usual Wikipedia practice, reflecting the understanding that it is the crime itself that is notable - rather than the victim or the perpetrator, whose only claim to notability is their connection to the crime. If this course is chosen, I would recommend that the other article, Martin MacNeill, be moved to the new title, because it has a much more significant article history. The contents of this article should then be merged and redirected to the "Murder of" article. A redirect titled
Michele MacNeill should also be created. --
MelanieN (
talk) 09:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Withdraw nomination Based on discussion here and at the other AfD, I withdraw my "delete" nomination and change it to "Merge/Redirect to an article called Murder of Michele MacNeill". We already have a volunteer to carry out the process. --
MelanieN (
talk) 14:16, 28 September 2014 (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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