Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enrique Marquez (accomplice)
to 2015 San Bernardino attack — it's not appropriate for this to stand on its own as an independent BLP until such time as he's ''convicted'' of something. Wikipedia has a policy, spelled out at , by which a person who was not already notable for something else does not get over the bar just for being ''charged'' with a crime — rather, they remain a , not appropriate as the subject of a standalone article, until such time as a court of law finalizes a ''conviction''. As we already know all too well, a not-insignificant portion of Wikipedia's userbase ''isn't'' as responsible and conscientious about the sensitivities of a matter like this as many of us lifers are, but instead like to use Wikipedia as a  for drive-by character assassination and presumptions of "guilty until proven innocent" instead of the obverse — and for that reason, this kind of article actually runs the risk of ''causing'' a ''mistrial'' if we can't absolutely guarantee the utmost level of hypervigilance about its content. So the rule was long ago established that a person does not become notable because of as-yet-untried criminal ''charges'' — the appropriate time for a standalone article about him will be if and when a court of law actually comes down with a guilty verdict, and until then it's not appropriate for us to do anything more than ''briefly'' mentioning him in the article about the ''event
— User:Bearcat, 00:50, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:PERP||WP:BLP1E||WP:SOAPBOX (Wikipedia:Notability)