Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur Shelton

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. Even if renamed to cover the crime rather than the criminal, there seems no notability. JohnCD (talk) 18:56, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Shelton

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Unremarkable murderer. Fails WP:BLP1E and WP:GNG. Here is a list of every non-bot editor that has touched this article: User:The Fading Light (creator), User:Good Olfactory, User:98.203.252.255, User:Millionsandbillions, User:PyroGamer, User:Boleyn2, User:69.182.56.121, and User:Quantpole - why did no one else propose this for deletion? Delicious carbuncle (talk) 17:53, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:11, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete due to lack of reliable sources. Plenty of ghits but all are somehow derived from an article called "Murdered for being an atheist", or are otherwise POV sources, blogs, and/or forums. Fails both WP:N and WP:PERP. No evidence that the crime itself received "intense media coverage" in reliable sources, thereby failing WP:N/CA. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 19:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per BLP1E and failure to meet general notability. JBsupreme (talk) 20:58, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and move to Murder of Larry Hooper on the principle of "cover the event, not the person". The motive for the murder is a relatively uncommon one. The article cited by User:Kuyabribri is more relevant in the context of the event than in the life of Arthur Shelton. - Eastmain (talk • contribs) 23:58, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
DeleteI added what sources I could find to improve the article, but it still fails notability. Just one more sick, sad, crime, which got minimal press coverage and no coverage in books, movies, or plays, and which inspired no legislation or social movements had no societal effects. One guy dead, one in prison, end of story. Edison (talk) 05:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, doesn't meet WP:PERPETRATOR. He might get in under criterion #3 if this had been more heavily covered and if he were not mentally ill, which from the sketchy reports I can find it appears he was. GNews turns up virtually no legitimate coverage; most of what's out there is discussions on atheist forums and the like. Glenfarclas (talk) 21:23, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Probably should have nommed it myself when I removed some unsourced info. Does not seem to have been covered beyond the ordinary for a murder, so I don't agree that the event should be covered either. Quantpole (talk) 12:00, 3 February 2010 (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.