Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Frederick Spears

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. Consensus is that as per the nomination for deletion, elements of WP:CRIME and WP:BIO1E pertain to this article (e.g. "The event (murder) is not significant, and the individual is even less so", "Per nomination above", "... very little press coverage (I ran news archive searches) If there is such a thing as a non-notable, "routine" murder, this was it"). Additionally, another user has stated that the subject is non-notable (" a non-notable murderer"). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:46, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Steven Frederick Spears

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Per WP:CRIME. WP:PROD'ed by User:Champion initially here, but WP:PROD deleted by User:Mathieu109 here without any discussion. The issue here isn't necessarily quality, reliability, verifiability, or frequency of sources, but determining WP:Notability for articles about convicted criminals. Although Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Basic_criteria may be fulfilled, article seems to fit into Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#People_notable_for_only_one_event, discounting subject's WP:Notability to be published in the article mainspace. Filing WP:AfD per #8 in Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Reasons_for_deletion. JustBerry (talk) 04:12, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 04:25, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This event is viscerally compelling to many people. Why not include something of so much significance?

Rebekahalnablack —Preceding undated comment added 00:31, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The event (murder) is not significant, and the individual is even less so. At best, he can be including in some list of murderers or such. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:49, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Per nomination above. --JustBerry (talk) 05:46, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 11:42, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 11:42, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - per sources. seems to have received plenty of extensive coverage for being a (Non-significant) murder.BabbaQ (talk) 10:39, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
delete guy killed his ex-girlfriend. convicted. very little press coverage (I ran news archive searches) If there is such a thing as a non-notable, "routine" murder, this was it.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:51, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 22:32, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a non-notable murderer.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:45, 2 January 2017 (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.