Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Pontolillo

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The result was delete. Courcelles (talk) 01:39, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

John Pontolillo[edit]

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Classic WP:BLP1E. A student killed a man in self defense using a sword and wasn't prosecuted. I'm not even sure that the assertion that this lead to a change in self-defense laws is true, since the blog linked doesn't say anything of the sort. AniMate 01:39, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 15:59, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: The article under discussion here has been flagged for {{Rescue}} by the Article Rescue Squadron. SnottyWong ^babble 19:04, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:BLP1E. I remember seeing this story come across the news. I used to work less than a mile from where it happened, back when I lived in Baltimore. It was just some college kid whose apartment was getting broken into. He is not notable for anything other than this one isolated event. SnottyWong ^babble 19:04, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I did some work on the article. The guy he killed was a career criminal burglar who had stolen his X-box, not an assassin. If the case actually caused laws to be changed, then its a notable one. I don't see any mention of that anywhere though, so I tagged that statement with a citation needed tag. Dream Focus 15:06, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - classic case of WP:BLP1E and WP:NOTNEWS. Not a sufficiently notable person at this time to have a Wikipedia biography. Robofish (talk) 11:57, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Yup, fails NOTNEWS, let alone BLP1E. If laws are changed as a result, then there might be reason to have an article on the event itself, but still not this person. Quantpole (talk) 12:15, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I remember this story being in the news. This article was created on 13 July 2010 by Melanesian obsession (now blocked as a sock) apparently trying to make some sort of point about BLP1Es I guess. He was soon blocked by attacking articles worked on by another editor. Interestingly, anyone who wants to find out about this case with a vague memory of it can find it by googling "samurai killing" (2nd hit) (or "samurai intruder" or "samurai burglar", both a 1st hit). Clearly, this is a BLP1E situation, and although consensus is that we stay away from circulating such clearcut BLP1E stories, such stories will live on forever regardless.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 12:59, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per BLP1E. GregJackP Boomer! 22:25, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per BLP1E. TomCat4680 (talk) 07:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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