Deletion of Kevin Whitrick

Comment: per . It's marginal, at that. On a personal note, I can't help thinking of his family and that WP is the first GHit we get for his name. Possibly '''move''' to a page indicating the event, rather than the person
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ONEEVENT)

Comment: and possibly rename). Technically, this is indeed a BLP1E case. The key question is if his suicide is notable. If yes, there deserves to be an article on the topic. The content of this article is almost entirely about the suicide already. The title could be moved to something like Internet suicide of Kevin Whitrick, but I am not sure how much sense there is in a such a move. On the main question of whether the suicide is notable, I would have to say that the answer is yes, based on the coverage it received. There was quite a bit of national coverage, and not just around the time the event occurred but months later as well. E.g. there were stories about the fact that the police decided not to prosecute anyone, e.g. http://www.shropshirestar.com/2007/05/26/no-web-death-prosecutions/http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2190861/charges-web-suicide-casehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/6695197.stm (May 2007), then about the verdict in the inquest http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/14/nchat114.xmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_news/england/699/69930/story6993095.shtml?45,05,05,22,08,2007http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2961284.ece (September 2007). There was also international coverage, e.g. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/technology-blog/2007/05/no_charges_in_chatroom_suicide.htmlhttp://www.theage.com.au/news/web/chatroom-hanging-captured-on-webcam/2007/03/24/1174761314885.htmlhttp://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SJ/lib00188,1184A0036A09EEB0.html, etc. There is also some evidence of the effect of the story beyond the coverage of the case itself, e.g. a mention in this January 2008 article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=506162&in_page_id=1. GoogleNews gives a total of 31 hits for "Kevin Whitrick"http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Kevin+Whitrick%22&hl=en&um=1 and 4 hits for "Kevin Neil Whitrick"http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Kevin+Neil+Whitrick%22&btnG=Search&hl=en&um=1. I would say that the suicide passes , so the article deserves to be kept, although possibly under a different name
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: I fully agree with Nsk92's excellent argument above, he may be notable for only one event but that one event was quite possibly the first of its kind.  says ''If reliable sources only cover the person in the context of a particular event'' but many of the news sources provide a background of Kevin's life, family, and events in his life that would have warranted his death, enough information to write a moderately good biography on him. I would say that, because of what I have discussed above, the article is |notable. &nbsp
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E||WP:N)