Deletion of Dustin Berg

Comment: No matter how I look at it, this is still .  probably applies too
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E||WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: Let's see, he joined the military, served in a war, killed a friendly, lied about it, got a Purple Heart for it, was tried, and convicted, and had the medal taken away. Any one of those alone would possibly fail , but all these events taken together create notable BLP
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)

Comment: At base this is still a |BLP1E, and a negative one at that (which makes it worse). The key point for me is that the article section "Long term impact of Berg's shooting" does not in fact demonstrate a long-term impact, nor notability for Berg beyond the crime of which he was convicted. That section makes it clear that increasing calls to re-institute the death penalty in the military, and the move to tighter rules of engagement, did ''not'' stem solely or even primarily from Berg's case, rather his case was just one of many where American GI's behaved badly (to put it mildly). Another way of putting it is that the section as written is not a get-out-of-BLP1E card. Essentially what we have is an ostensibly biographical article with nothing whatsoever about this person and their life (which is what a biography is), but rather a crime scene report and account of an investigation/trial. In a situation like that it's usually a sign that BLP1E is operative and that we should probably not have an article on the person. I would probably be okay with merging this into a general article about notable crimes committed by "coalition" soldiers in Iraq. I do not believe that currently exists (Human rights in post-invasion Iraq and Iraq prison abuse scandals were the closest I could find), but it probably could since there have been general discussions about the phenomenon, and mentions of individual cases would be appropriate. In the context of a possible merge it's worth taking note of some similar AfDs in the past, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James P. Barker and more importantly Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Dale Green. Ultimately the articles on both of these GIs were merged/redirected to Mahmudiyah killings which was quite right in my view. Berg's case is not completely analogous since it was a one-off event involving two people (thus no ready target like Mahmudiyah killings), but it's not the only case of its kind, and we could discuss the most noteworthy examples of violent crimes in a general article (I'm not clever enough to think of a title at the moment). If such an article was created now I'd support a merge, but if not I think this needs to be deleted as a BLP1E, with the content possibly restored and merged later once there is a target for merging
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)

Comment: Fails . Reliable sources cover the person only in the context of this murder, and we should avoid having an article about them barring extreme circumstances
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)

Comment: and possibly re-name. The case has some BLP1E features, but the underlying event is certainly sufficiently notable to deserve a separate article and not to be merged to anything else. The amount of coverage is significant and it extends over a significant period of time, so this is not a  case. The BLP1E issue can be solved by simply moving the name of the article to something like Court matial of Dustin Berg or something similar
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: WP:N/CA outlines the notability of criminal ''acts'', while  (a sub-section of the former, the notability guidelines for ''perpetrators'' of crime.  Given this article is about the individual, rather than the event,  applies.  A criminal perpetrators is notable if any one of the following is true:1.  ''The perpetrator is notable for something beyond the crime itself...'' (Berg fails on this one)2.  ''The victim is a renowned world figure, or immediate family member of a renowned world figure...'' (Fails)3.  ''The motivation for the crime or the execution of the crime is unusual or has otherwise been considered noteworthy such that it is a well-documented historic event...''  This, according to the guideline is true if there is persistent coverage about the event.  This is also not true.  http://news.google.com/archivesearch?&as_src=-newswire+-wire+-presswire+-PR+-press+-release+-wikipedia&q=%22Dustin+Berg%22 Here you can see that news peaked during the event (the trial) and has dropped away completely i a relatively short period of time.  Compare this to Beverley Allitt, who has sustained http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Beverley+Allitt%22+source%3A%22-newswire%22+source%3A%22-wire%22+source%3A%22-presswire%22+source%3A%22-PR%22+source%3A%22-press%22+source%3A%22-release%22+source%3A%22-wikipedia%22&btnG=Search+Archives&scoring=a news coverage for more than a decade.  Other than that, he gets little more than a passing mention in articles about related matters (for example the North County Times article cited in the "Reaction" section of the article.In all, there is simply not enough under the current guidelines for notability of perpetrators of crime to warrant Dustin Berg's inclusion
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PERP)