Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magdalena Stoffels

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The result was KEEP. Article has already been retitled as User:Location describes below. postdlf (talk) 01:13, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Magdalena Stoffels[edit]

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A tragedy with front page news coverage, several high-ranking officials commented on her death. Still this is largely WP:ONEEVENT with no historic significance. The person itself is not notable per own achievements. Pgallert (talk) 09:58, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Possible Keep Although the article now is not written in proper WP style, the event seems like it might have had some lasting impact. Kitfoxxe (talk) 10:36, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A tragic murder, but then again, all murders are tragic. See WP:VICTIM for consensus on dealing with such sad stories. Cullen328 (talk) 19:11, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:30, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:30, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:31, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - needs additional sources, but seems to have had an impact in the nation.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:56, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. But needs serious cleanup to become NPOV. -- Necrothesp (talk) 00:14, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as Murder of Magdalena Stoffels since the article is about an event and not a true biography. I will admit that I do not follow the news in Namibia, however, this murder appears to have sparked a large amount of outrage and generated a large amount of news coverage. I have had a go at making this a properly worded and formatted article, but I've saved the original incarnation for other editors to view. If someone wants to remove that section now, they are certainly free to do so. Location (talk) 05:46, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Substantially delete: yes, crime was covered by media, but actually every crime is. Yet I can't understand why this crime should be more notable than similar ones. We're not a newspaper. -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 12:51, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - evidently it is an event with consequences broader than the immediate family and friends and the inevitable legal consequences, so I think it falls the right side of the boundary. The Land (talk) 23:13, 23 March 2011 (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.