Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rene Reinmann (2nd nomination)

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. Mz7 (talk) 06:22, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rene Reinmann

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WP:BLP1E. Article was created only as a result of subject's criminal record; was not notable prior to that. Article in native Estonian language has been deleted since January 17, 2009. Article is an orphan. Former member of Tallinn City Council. We have no article about that elected body. wbm1058 (talk) 22:04, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Estonia-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:20, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:20, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. While Tallinn is a large and prominent enough city that its councillors might pass WP:NPOL if they could be properly sourced and substanced, there's no content here at all about anything but the criminal charges themselves. And, in fact, all but one of the reference links deadlink back to the publication's front splash page, making it impossible to properly verify whether they cover him in any other context, or just address the criminal allegations. Which makes this a WP:BLP1E, as well as a WP:PERP violation: criminal charges are not in and of themselves grounds for an article, if there's no other substantive claim of notability being made at all. And if even the Estonian Wikipedia can't be arsed to keep an article about an Estonian politician, there's no compelling reason for the English one to do so either. No prejudice against recreation in the future if someone can write and source something better — i.e. less unbalanced — than this. We're an encyclopedia, not a public "name and shame" board for everybody who ever did something illegal. Bearcat (talk) 19:23, 29 August 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.