Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knife-wielding Bank Robbers

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 20:01, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Knife-wielding Bank Robbers[edit]

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WP:LISTCRUFT - seemingly a few non-notable crimes put together in one page. Mdann52 (talk) 16:58, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:07, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I PRODed this when it was first posted about a single robber, other incidents of robberies with a knife were added to make it seem more credible. I left it for a bit to see if it would be fleshed out but it hasn't. There's nothing inherently significant in robbing a bank with a common weapon, none of the crimes or perpetrators are notable in & of themselves (per WP:PERPETRATOR as I cited in the PROD), and throwing a bunch of non-notable things together doesn't make them notable. If this was a mass spree of huge wave of similar crimes, I could see it... but this ain't that. JamesG5 (talk) 20:34, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A knife is a common weapon and didn't just become recently used in bank robberies. All of these stories are local news and PsychoticInq's 'names' for the accused are lazy. Nate • (chatter) 20:35, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as simple LISTCRUFT: Nothing happened majorly. KGirl ^{(Wanna chat?)} 20:41, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Started working on the article again with one more instance included. I am fully awared that the aforementioned weapon is widely used but this article was thought of to include notable robbers of knife-wielding - and as that a none-common weapon is a meat cleaver or bread knife accordingly. Perhaps it needs more work to include only really significant instances. PsychoticInclusion (talk)
Delete - as per above. Power~enwiki (talk) 00:40, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: As per nomination. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 01:27, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - Coatrack of unrelated incidents, connected only by trivia. Carrite (talk) 21:50, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A collection of news reports, none of the events or perpetrators are notable, is exactly what Wikipedia is WP:NOT. Ajf773 (talk) 00:37, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Per my previous statement. Apologies to admin my AfD tool is malfunctioning and I'm trying to figure out the problem.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 00:12, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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