Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Oubel

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The result was keep. Mojo Hand (talk) 15:53, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

David Oubel[edit]

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BLP that is WP:1E. If an article about the event was created, this could be merged into it. But this article is written and titled is solely a bio of the perp and fails per 1E. // Timothy :: talk 04:02, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. // Timothy :: talk 04:02, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Spain-related deletion discussions. // Timothy :: talk 04:02, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: As I said in my summary on creating the page as I knew this would happen, this was a landmark case. Not for the way the murder happened, but the sentencing, which was the first to be given a life sentence in Spain. I'm sure 1E has an exception for being the first person to be sentenced to life in prison, for killing two little girls with a power saw; this is not an encroachment on well-earned privacy. If such a page should be titled about the crime and not the perpetrator, suggest a page move, not a deletion. There is a page about Henry John Burnett on the basis that he was the last man to be hanged in Scotland (the English equivalent is at Murder of John Alan West). I don't know enough about motives to delete, but on this Wikipedia there is a severe systemic bias against non-English speaking countries. You can put together a blow by blow of a murder in Nowhere, Montana with zero legal or cultural legacy, and it passes notability for "sustained coverage" because you cite every piece from the arrest to the verdict. Unknown Temptation (talk) 18:28, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Just a comment, not another vote: A criteria on WP:BLP1E is that a person is low profile and likely to remain as such. I'm sorry, nobody can say that about someone who was the first to be sentenced to life imprisonment in a first-world country of 50 million people, for killing two little girls. Unknown Temptation (talk) 18:33, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep for the long term media attention the case received. WP:1E does not forbid writing about notable perpetrators, renaming this article to something less recognizable wouldn't serve readers. – Thjarkur (talk) 01:11, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:39, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - lamdmark case. Within WP:GNG. BabbaQ (talk) 20:02, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect and perhaps partially merge to Life imprisonment in Spain, where the novel aspects of the law's application can well be covered; the man himself is BLP1E. Sandstein 22:18, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep, article is well sourced, and the events in it are very infamous as well. Davidgoodheart (talk) 13:16, 10 January 2021 (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.