Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kathryn Faughey

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The result was redirect. Wizardman 17:31, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Kathryn Faughey

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Newsworthy and tragic story but of little encyclopedic value. No sources to indicate notability beyond the current event. Fails WP:V and WP:BIO. PeterSymonds (talk) 20:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Violates WP:NOTMEMORIAL and WP:N. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 21:51, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

• Comment: It's not a memorial, it's a biography. It will continue to expand and look more like a biography as details of her life, murder and the impact it's had on people's awareness of psychology surface. An article is also needed for the client who killed her.--IdLoveOne (talk) 03:56, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

• Comment - The problem is that Faughey herself was not a notable biographical subject in the way that concept is defined in Wikipedia. See WP:BIO. IMO, the crime was notable, but not the victim nor the perpetrator. I have expanded the article because I believe that the crime is notable and the article is worth keeping, but I think it should be moved, as indicated below. --Orlady (talk) 14:45, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

• Fair enough. --IdLoveOne (talk) 21:05, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

• Move to event, which was notable. It created a broo-ha-ha in two aspects: 1) having psychologists offices in residental buildings and 2) the security measures that psychologists take for dangerous patients. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 04:59, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. -- brewcrewer (yada, yada) 05:28, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. -- brewcrewer (yada, yada) 05:29, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. -- brewcrewer (yada, yada) 05:30, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
• Move to become an article about the crime (or about this pattern of crime), not the victim. As Brewcrewer says above, the crime was notable, and the general topic of mental patients attacking their therapists is even more notable. For example, see Therapists Are Advised To Take Precautions (New York Sun, February 14, 2008), an article written after this particular murder; it includes information on some other recent incidents in which patients murdered mental health workers. --Orlady (talk) 17:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC) ADDED: Another incident is described in this article: NIMH Administrator Wayne S. Fenton, 53 --Orlady (talk) 22:11, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
• Keep (and move to the title about the crime, as usual) this was very far out of the ordinary, and has gotten comment and will continu to in places beyond the usual crime story. DGG (talk) 07:25, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

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