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
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I believe it deserves to be kept according to
WP:NOTNEWS because a) it is widely "verifiable" in a great number of
WP:Reliable sources, and b) it is likely to be of "historical importance" because other unarmed-black-youth stories, such as those of Martin and Brown, have inspired extended responses and this case involves the death of a young child, which will probably stir people up even more and spawn even more active debate on policing practices.
FourViolas (
talk) 12:45, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Vote for deletion It seems the notability of this event, in media coverage, relates wholly to the controversy in Ferguson and a larger national conversation, and is not about this specific boy or tragic incident itself.
96.237.108.28 (
talk) 19:37, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
No vote, but comment, added section at
Anonymous regarding their shutting down of Cleveland's website and video posted due to this incident.
ProfessorTofty (
talk) 21:56, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep quick google reveals how rapidly this has become notable. But move to
Shooting of Tamir Rice, and somebody needs to improve it.
ShulMaven (
talk) 00:50, 25 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment: I am happy to work on improving the text of the article but am not confident I can add that content without disrupting Wikipedia-style HTML and formatting. Is someone here willing to apply Wikipedia formatting if I provide a draft of content?
surfbird (
talk) 06:15, 25 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep because this AFD proposal is another idiotic example (after so many others) of Wikipedia dogmatism regarding notability. There's people here who have nothing better to do and it makes them feel important I guess. People at large will want to find information about this case, that information is available from reliable and trusted sources, and that's what WP should supply. Contact Basemetalhere 11:49, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Procedural comment: Yes, I agree people will want info curated from
WP:RS and that the page should therefore stay. I'd also like to gently remind you of our
good-faith and
personal attack policies; I'm sure
User:Anupmehra knows what they're doing and has perfectly legitimate intentions, such as fighting
WP:Recentism. The original article was in fact written in
news style, and I think there was nothing wrong with its nomination for deletion. Cheers!
FourViolas (
talk) 12:21, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep - purely on the basis of notability. established.--
BabbaQ (
talk) 15:32, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep - While of course this takes place straight in the middle of the Michael Brown shooting affair, this is still notable enough considering the circumstances of the situation, i.e. the shooting victim between 12 and the fake pistol (which could launch a new debate on whether realistic-looking yet fake guns like airsoft or BB guns should be counted in the debate of gun control).
Libertarian12111971 (
talk) 21:04, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete - i think it should be deleted. just my 2 cents my name is drugzarebad69
Keep but move to
Shooting of Tamir Rice - As of November 26, 2014 at the latest, this event is receiving more primary coverage in reliable/major U.S. and international news outlets (e.g., the BBC, NYTimes, AP) and is no longer a secondary/tangential event being reported on in relation to
Shooting of Michael Brown (as it was described above in a vote to remove the article). Furthermore, while this event does directly pertain to a larger national conversation (this was also used as a point in the same vote to remove above), the does not necessarily mean it isn't worthy of its own article. Police brutality and racism in America was a larger national conversation long before Michael Brown was shot, yet this did not stop the creation of an article regarding his shooting. I agree that Tamir's notability for a Wikipedia article solely pertains to this event, so it should be moved (it appears it has been moved already, though, so is this AFD not relevant anymore?). It's already become historically significant in part because it occurred right around the same time of another historically-significant event.
Jp4gs (
talk) 23:28, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete. Tragic, obviously, but there's no indication this rises to notability in the encyclopedic sense. This is clearly in
WP:NOTNEWS territory.
TJRC (
talk) 18:14, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep (noting that the article has already been moved). This is obviously notable, given the attention this story has received on the national stage, its relation to the Michael Brown Case, and its relation to a variety of contentious issues in American politics. Wikipedia is not improved if someone searching for Tamir Rice finds nothing instead of this article.
L33tminion(talk) 21:21, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep (as already moved). Googling Tamir Rice yields almost 6 million results; I'd say it's notable enough.
Argymeg (
talk) 21:43, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep, clearly notable, and very much so, based on tremendous press coverage.
Everyking (
talk) 23:09, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Snow Keep When it's getting in depth coverage from reliable sources in the UK (
BBC,
Guardian,
Independent) and Australia (
Sydney Morning Herald) it counts as notable.
WP:NOTNEWS doesn't apply as this is neither direct journalism, or in any sense routine coverage. And
WP:BLP1E was a valid call to make when the page was at a page named after the victim, but someone has very properly followed
wp:Bold and moved it to
Shooting of Tamir Rice. The deletion nomination was plausible when first made, but the conditions that made it a candidate for deletion have all changed.
Neonchameleon (
talk) 00:27, 28 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Obvious Keep Highly significant number of sources. -
Cwobeel(talk) 20:07, 28 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Request for closure of deletion discussion Two rationales for deletion have been stated:
WP:BIO1E and
WP:NOTNEWS. The first is not relevant since
User:Cyanidethistles's move, and the second is by majority (of arguments, not votes) inapplicable because the event is historically relevant and its coverage has been far from routine. Can we declare consensus? The page is being
heavily viewed, and I think it reflects poorly on WP that all these viewers are seeing a somewhat
astonishing deletion tag.
FourViolas (
talk) 00:08, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I agree. Having the tag there just makes us look ridiculous to all of the people coming to view the article.
Everyking (
talk) 02:56, 29 November 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.
I believe it deserves to be kept according to
WP:NOTNEWS because a) it is widely "verifiable" in a great number of
WP:Reliable sources, and b) it is likely to be of "historical importance" because other unarmed-black-youth stories, such as those of Martin and Brown, have inspired extended responses and this case involves the death of a young child, which will probably stir people up even more and spawn even more active debate on policing practices.
FourViolas (
talk) 12:45, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Vote for deletion It seems the notability of this event, in media coverage, relates wholly to the controversy in Ferguson and a larger national conversation, and is not about this specific boy or tragic incident itself.
96.237.108.28 (
talk) 19:37, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
No vote, but comment, added section at
Anonymous regarding their shutting down of Cleveland's website and video posted due to this incident.
ProfessorTofty (
talk) 21:56, 24 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep quick google reveals how rapidly this has become notable. But move to
Shooting of Tamir Rice, and somebody needs to improve it.
ShulMaven (
talk) 00:50, 25 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment: I am happy to work on improving the text of the article but am not confident I can add that content without disrupting Wikipedia-style HTML and formatting. Is someone here willing to apply Wikipedia formatting if I provide a draft of content?
surfbird (
talk) 06:15, 25 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep because this AFD proposal is another idiotic example (after so many others) of Wikipedia dogmatism regarding notability. There's people here who have nothing better to do and it makes them feel important I guess. People at large will want to find information about this case, that information is available from reliable and trusted sources, and that's what WP should supply. Contact Basemetalhere 11:49, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Procedural comment: Yes, I agree people will want info curated from
WP:RS and that the page should therefore stay. I'd also like to gently remind you of our
good-faith and
personal attack policies; I'm sure
User:Anupmehra knows what they're doing and has perfectly legitimate intentions, such as fighting
WP:Recentism. The original article was in fact written in
news style, and I think there was nothing wrong with its nomination for deletion. Cheers!
FourViolas (
talk) 12:21, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep - purely on the basis of notability. established.--
BabbaQ (
talk) 15:32, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep - While of course this takes place straight in the middle of the Michael Brown shooting affair, this is still notable enough considering the circumstances of the situation, i.e. the shooting victim between 12 and the fake pistol (which could launch a new debate on whether realistic-looking yet fake guns like airsoft or BB guns should be counted in the debate of gun control).
Libertarian12111971 (
talk) 21:04, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete - i think it should be deleted. just my 2 cents my name is drugzarebad69
Keep but move to
Shooting of Tamir Rice - As of November 26, 2014 at the latest, this event is receiving more primary coverage in reliable/major U.S. and international news outlets (e.g., the BBC, NYTimes, AP) and is no longer a secondary/tangential event being reported on in relation to
Shooting of Michael Brown (as it was described above in a vote to remove the article). Furthermore, while this event does directly pertain to a larger national conversation (this was also used as a point in the same vote to remove above), the does not necessarily mean it isn't worthy of its own article. Police brutality and racism in America was a larger national conversation long before Michael Brown was shot, yet this did not stop the creation of an article regarding his shooting. I agree that Tamir's notability for a Wikipedia article solely pertains to this event, so it should be moved (it appears it has been moved already, though, so is this AFD not relevant anymore?). It's already become historically significant in part because it occurred right around the same time of another historically-significant event.
Jp4gs (
talk) 23:28, 26 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Delete. Tragic, obviously, but there's no indication this rises to notability in the encyclopedic sense. This is clearly in
WP:NOTNEWS territory.
TJRC (
talk) 18:14, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep (noting that the article has already been moved). This is obviously notable, given the attention this story has received on the national stage, its relation to the Michael Brown Case, and its relation to a variety of contentious issues in American politics. Wikipedia is not improved if someone searching for Tamir Rice finds nothing instead of this article.
L33tminion(talk) 21:21, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep (as already moved). Googling Tamir Rice yields almost 6 million results; I'd say it's notable enough.
Argymeg (
talk) 21:43, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep, clearly notable, and very much so, based on tremendous press coverage.
Everyking (
talk) 23:09, 27 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Snow Keep When it's getting in depth coverage from reliable sources in the UK (
BBC,
Guardian,
Independent) and Australia (
Sydney Morning Herald) it counts as notable.
WP:NOTNEWS doesn't apply as this is neither direct journalism, or in any sense routine coverage. And
WP:BLP1E was a valid call to make when the page was at a page named after the victim, but someone has very properly followed
wp:Bold and moved it to
Shooting of Tamir Rice. The deletion nomination was plausible when first made, but the conditions that made it a candidate for deletion have all changed.
Neonchameleon (
talk) 00:27, 28 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Obvious Keep Highly significant number of sources. -
Cwobeel(talk) 20:07, 28 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Request for closure of deletion discussion Two rationales for deletion have been stated:
WP:BIO1E and
WP:NOTNEWS. The first is not relevant since
User:Cyanidethistles's move, and the second is by majority (of arguments, not votes) inapplicable because the event is historically relevant and its coverage has been far from routine. Can we declare consensus? The page is being
heavily viewed, and I think it reflects poorly on WP that all these viewers are seeing a somewhat
astonishing deletion tag.
FourViolas (
talk) 00:08, 29 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I agree. Having the tag there just makes us look ridiculous to all of the people coming to view the article.
Everyking (
talk) 02:56, 29 November 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.