Deletion of Leelah Alcorn

Comment: Article fails  and . No indication that death had any lasting significance on society. Article can always be re-created if that should eventuate
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:EVENT||WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: Article fails  and . No indication that death had any lasting significance on society. Article can always be re-created if that should eventuate. This is a classic example of a . Although Alcorn "wanted her suicide to create a dialogue about the discrimination and abuse of transgender people" wikipedia is not a place to |right great wrongs. At the least this perosn had no notability before death and thus the article should be retitled if kept to Suicide of Leelah Alcorn.--Special:Contributions/70.190.111.213|70.190.111.213
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:EVENT||WP:NOTNEWS||WP:BIO1E||WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS)

Comment: This has now frankly moved beyond  and . The level of media attention now indicates this is not a single event or any danger of this becoming a memorial. The name change may be necessary and I wouldn't object to that. We just need to be vigilant about how the article is written and maintained
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:EVENT||WP:BIO1E)

Comment: This is a classic example of a " - No it is not. What is notable here is not the one event of the suicide, but the discussion this suicide generated which are multiple events. In this sense the argument that the article shouldn't be a biography but an article about the events surrounding this suicide has more value - albeit I personally are not convinced the suicide itself is the notable event. However . We can take our time. The even is hot. This AFD is badly argued and on a bad basis. So keep. We can move it later if that is the consensus then
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO1E||WP:NOTPAPER)

Comment: This is an utterly pointless AFD. It happens every time some event goes viral, the premature creation of an article, and then the premature AFD. Alcorn's death is notable for going viral, we have other articles on viral events, some Kony 2012|deserving so, some others Alex from Target|probably not. Her death has not yet generated the enduring notability as required by , and while it may highlight the brokeness of conversion therapy and the prevalence of suicide among LGBT youth, it is probably better handled in those articles. That said, it is utterly impossible to arrive at any conclusion aside from '''no consensus''' when there is so much traffic incoming to the article during peak-viral
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: The article includes plenty of sources discussing Leelah's death and its impact; it's only two days after the fact, and there's already international coverage discussing how her death is impacting the transgender rights movement (which satisfies the need for secondary sources, and rises well above ). It's too early to say what the long-term impact of her death will be, since she only died a few days ago, but by that logic we wouldn't have any articles about ongoing events. (The article probably should be moved to Suicide of Leelah Alcorn, though, based on  and precedent
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTNEWS||WP:BLP1E)

Comment: Per , . Every non-SPA argument for keeping the article so far seems to be that the story has generated a few news stories and ''might'' have some kind of long-term effect on LGBT issues. ''Might'' is not enough to support an article like this one, in either form. The subject is not notable, and wasn't before their death. Wikipedia is |not a memorial or the place to right great wrongs. Maybe in 6 months when a valid case can be made for a lasting impact then an article could be put together. So far as far as I see this is already falling off the news cycle
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E||WP:NOTNEWS||WP:NOTMEMORIAL)

Comment: The depth of coverage that she has received shows notability. It might be more appropriate to move the page to an article about her death per , but that's grounds for renaming the article not deleting it
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO1E)

Comment: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/warren-county/leelah-alcorn-suicide-note-sparks-transgender-discussion This article from WCPO-TV outright states that a national dialog has begun based on this event, which means that it is in the process of satisfying .  Since the event seems to be the source of notability, then I would support a move.  I agree that there are a lot of SPAs who are not voting based on policy, but there ''are'' policy-based rationales to keep beyond "righting great wrongs".  As long as we keep to secondary sources that describe the ramifications of the event (yes, they exist), we can prevent this from becoming a memorial
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:EVENT)

Comment: Meets  due to coverage in multiple independent sources (refs 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 are mainstream news sources that clearly meet 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:RS)

Comment: and '''recommend against move''' to Death of Leelah Alcorn - this person's notability is not determined solely by her death, as there has been sizable media coverage both of the death itself and of her life proper. See refs 6 and 7, which meet  and establish notability of her life before her death
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)