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Crime[edit]

May 2024 Massachusetts stabbings[edit]

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I think the creation of this page may have jumped the gun a bit. There are possible issues with WP:SUSPECT and outside of the area it occurred, coverage seems limited (in a brief search just now all of the coverage I've found was already a month old, back to the week the event took place, and nothing since).

I would also be in favor of this going back to the drafts until further information is released. Lindsey40186 (talk) 16:15, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Conspiracy theories, Crime, Events, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:58, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Hurt Hardy[edit]

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Does not meet notability standards of WP:CRIME GuyBanks (talk) 01:09, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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Delete: I can only find pictures of this person and newspapers describing his trial and hanging from the time... I don't see much notability as there has been no discussion about this person since. Lack of sourcing other than news reports of the event don't help. Oaktree b (talk) 03:08, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

San Antonio parade shooting[edit]

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Reviewed during NPP. Does not meet notability:events. BTW the lead is the main article and the whole lead is copyvio. I didn't zap it because then there would be no article. North8000 (talk) 19:52, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Strong Keep. but clean up the copyvios. This is part of Category:Mass shootings in Texas. In and of itself, a sub of Category:Mass shootings in the United States. And on and on it goes. Perhaps they're all riddled with copyvios - or not. How do we say one is more notable than another one? — Maile (talk) 20:50, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

I was using the criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (events) to answer that question. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 20:58, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

I kind of figured you were. Let's see what others say. Whatever works for all, is OK with me. — Maile (talk) 21:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Changed to strong keep, With the new sourced background on the killer, I am convinced this article should be kept. — Maile (talk) 02:12, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

There are lots of ways to misconstrue WP:N. "We can't know whether anything's notable, but it's in a category" might be the most wild one I've ever seen. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 22:25, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime and Texas. Shellwood (talk) 21:25, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Delete. Wikipedia is not a repository of ~~news stories.~~ Thebiguglyalien (talk) 22:23, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]
- Keep. The sources found by PARAKANYAA demonstrate significant retrospective coverage. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 02:01, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Keep. Has SIGCOV in many books published decades after the event occurred. See:

Covered for several pages in the 2012 book The Anatomy of Motive, published by Simon & Schuster
Discussed for a page in Fatal Moments: The Tragedy of the Accidental Killer
Discussed a non-insignificant amount (idk how many pages) in They Shoot to Kill A Psycho-survey of Criminal Sniping
Discussed in the book Old Riot, New Ranger for at least 1+ full page.

This wasn't a particularly exhaustive search and was only books in Google Books so there's likely more.

I volunteer to add them if the article is kept. PARAKANYAA (talk) 23:23, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

I have now made it less terrible. Could have done more but this is about as much work as I'm willing to do on an article that might get deleted. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:54, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Impressive Thank you for doing this. You've really added some decent context and sourcing to this article, I'm now convinced this should be KEEP. Your editing has shed light on the overall mental picture of the perpetrator.. — Maile (talk) 02:12, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

I also might add that the Texas archives final standoff video is pretty impressive in and of itself. — Maile (talk) 13:59, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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Keep With the extensive work done on the article since the nomination, IMO it has transitioned to one that should be kept on GNG grounds. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 14:40, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Gallon smashing[edit]

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While this probably seemed like an interesting topic at the time, it seems to explicitly fail WP:SUSTAINED (cf. also WP:10YT) as the coverage happened in 2013 with very little after that. Therefore, in hindsight the fad seems short-lived and confined to that time period with little impact (WP:IMPACT) beyond that. An alternative way to proceed could be a broader article about criminal "challenges/pranks" directed against grocery stores/food places, as gallon smashing seems closely related to ice cream licking [1] etc. Geschichte (talk) 07:54, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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Delete Already has a well-sourced entry at List of internet challenges, which goes into more than enough detail. All sources cited (and all sources I can find outside social media) are from 2013, making this a textbook failure of WP:10YT. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 14:39, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Keep per GNG (disclaimer: page creator). I take the opposite position as above. I think there's sufficient secondary coverage about this trend and the page is an appropriate fork from List of Internet challenges. The list merely defines "gallon smashing" without providing any additional context about the trend's history or impact. I'd prefer to see this entry expanded, not merged or deleted. I've added additional in-depth coverage by Bloomberg News, ABC News, CBS News, etc, and I've shared more refs on the talk page. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:01, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

"the trend's history or impact". What impact? Geschichte (talk) 14:35, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Swat lynching incident[edit]

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Horrible and highly condemnable incident but fails NEVENT. WP is not newspaper. Saqib (talk I contribs) 10:02, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]

I've merged the content into List of blasphemy cases in Pakistan to ensure that editors' efforts are not wasted. — Saqib (talk I contribs) 15:30, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime and Events. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:01, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Merge with List of blasphemy cases in Pakistan, per @Saqib's comment. Incident isn't WP:N enough to warrant an article. —Mjks28 (talk) 00:09, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Merge per above. I mean it was already so in theory it can be redirected but, yes. PARAKANYAA (talk) 12:22, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Delete or Merge as per the above recomendation I do agree with the nominator's concern.223.123.10.196 (talk) 01:01, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Keep - There is a continued coverage about the incident. see. Mfarazbaig (talk) 13:32, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]
- Mfarazbaig, OK but WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE also states coverage does not need to be ongoing for notability to be established, a burst or spike of news reports does not automatically make an incident notable.— Saqib (talk I contribs) 14:21, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Michael Larson[edit]

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WP:BLP1E. Jax 0677 (talk) 23:02, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Merge with Press Your Luck scandal. Per ~~WP:BLP1E~~WP:BIO1E there should not be two separate articles. Walsh90210 (talk) 00:28, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Redirect as all of the reliable sources and verifiable content at Michael Larson has already been incorporated into Press Your Luck scandal. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 00:37, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

keep BLP1E does not apply. He is not alive. And the article has substantial information about him beyond his winning strategy. ~~JoshuaZ (talk) 01:29, 22 June 2024 (UTC)~~[]
An additional comment: Since Jax 0677 has decided in a somewhat idiosyncratic way to express skepticism about the above (see edit history of this page), I'll note that the article has a whole section titled "Later life, death, and legacy." ~~JoshuaZ (talk) 02:17, 22 June 2024 (UTC)~~ Changing opinion to redirect. Fourthords's comments below are convincing. JoshuaZ (talk) 16:18, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

I assumed the nominator meant WP:BIO1E, which does apply. Also, all of this article's verifiable content (including the 11% not stemming from the PYL event) is already to be found at the article about the overall event—Press Your Luck scandal. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 02:53, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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Redirect to Press Your Luck scandal, if only because there's little left to merge. The history may be useful for attribution purposes, though, and keeping the history around is useful for tracking how we wrote about this subject years in the past. As for Larson's article, it's now redundant to the scandal article. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 19:26, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Merge. I mean, it was already merged in practice, but still. PARAKANYAA (talk) 12:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
Reply - I am OK with a merge or redirect. --Jax 0677 (talk) 23:29, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Comment: Whatever is done here, please remember to move Michael Larson (disambiguation) to the title, Michael Larson, when this is all over. BD2412 T 16:18, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]
No, Michael Larson would continue to be a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT, unless you want to open an RFD. 162 etc. (talk) 20:59, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Reverse merge and redirect Press Your Luck scandal to Michael Larson. (This concern is slightly lessened if the article moves from its current POV title, but that's being argued in a RM currently, and I'd still prefer the reverse merge.) It doesn't make much sense to have two separate articles, yes, but this is the more relevant article and the better title. This is not a BIO1E case, this was actually the more notable article if only one is kept - see arguments in the earlier RM discussion. Many sources discuss the topic simply by Michael Larson's name and not by the episode or by "scandal", e.g. [2]. SnowFire (talk) 05:46, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Southport Sockman[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG, and probably WP:BLP1E and WP:NCRIME. Mdann52 (talk) 14:56, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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Delete. Mildly amusing anecdote, but that doesn't make it notable. Athel cb (talk) 15:06, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[]
it's very notable locally and across merseyside and lancashire 31.94.28.139 (talk) 12:49, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Leaning keep on this one, though the article really does need to pull it's socks up. This was not a single incident, but rather a spree of incidents over several years - a lot of socks. Furthermore, although the court case is reported to have been in 1998 there does appear to be WP:SUSTAINED coverage of the UK-based "sockmen", including: coverage from Canada from 1996 (Medicine Hat News), a 2009 article ([3]), a film produced in 2015/16 (Liverpool Echo, IMDb, Mirror), a 2017 book ([4]), a Connecticut radio show in 2020 ([5]), and a retrospective article in 2021 (Daily Record). Coverage could be better, but does appear to be much more than "breaking news". ResonantDis_tortion 18:34, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[]
Comment - I have reverted the vandalism where an IP had added a third name to the perpetrators, and also added some of the above refs as citations within the article. ResonantDis_tortion 19:08, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[]
I added an 'In popular culture' section to the article with talks about the film and book adaptations, with can help enforce its WP:N. Mjks28 (talk) 11:21, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:19, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Keep: Events described in article are notable, as they have inspired multiple media products (per @ResonantDistortion's argument above, such as a film). Article could, however, benefit from some rewording/restructuring, and add a section that could cover its media adaptations. —Mjks28 (talk) 05:52, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Keep oh wow, I remember this happening, some of my friends were 'victims'. Anyway, I've added some extra detail with contemporaneous references. Orange sticker (talk) 23:30, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[]

2024 Lakki Marwat bombing[edit]

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Fails NEVENT. No lasting effects. Saqib (talk) 20:34, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[]

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Comment: "No lasting effects" seems rather early to call three days since the bombing, the day after an overnight operation resulting from it was held. There's arguments that could be made in regards to WP:NOTNEWS and WP:NEVENTS, but WP:LASTING is not the one (yet), since that one specifically states It may take weeks or months to determine whether or not an event has a lasting effect. This does not, however, mean recent events with unproven lasting effect are automatically non-notable, and less-than-a-week-ago is certainly recent. AddWittyNameHere 01:59, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[]

AddWittyNameHere, Noted. How about WP:TOOSOON ? — Saqib (talk) 06:27, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Merge to Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2024. Pakistan has so much terrorism that the odds of an individual incident getting long term coverage are slim unless it is exceptionally high profile and deadly, which this is not. However, it is notable as part of Pakistan's overall problem, so the information should be retained. This is what we did with the 100 past Pakistani terrorism articles that were AfD'd the past few months (though a few stayed their own articles) PARAKANYAA (talk) 07:17, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[]

PARAKANYAA, Sure - I'm fine with merge into Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2024. — Saqib (talk I contribs) 23:01, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Keep as the event has received WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE in international media: 9 June 2024, 11 June 2024, 16 June 2024. Maybe rename the article, but such events are almost always notable due to Pakistan Army connection. I'd suggest to defer this AFD for a year so we can see the lasting impact. 103.12.120.46 (talk) 22:26, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[]
- IP- As per this report, Pakistan witnessed as many as 245 incidents of terror attacks and counter-terror operations during the *irst quarter of 2024, resulting in 432 fatalities I'm sure each of them received similar amount of press coverage but do we need a standalone WP article on each one of them? I don't think so. This barely two paragraph long article should better be merged. WP is NOTDIRECTORY of terrorist attacks in Pakistan so we better focus on quality of our articles, not quantity. — Saqib (talk I contribs) 23:16, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Merge as per above. The event does not seem to be too outstanding from other terrorist activities in Pakistan to merit its own article. Tutwakhamoe (talk) 21:57, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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