Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernard Darke
per my earlier prod which was removed by a since-banned editor. Darke was not "martyred"; he was a bystander accidentally killed by assassins looking for someone else. There are very occasional precedents for biographies of people known only for their deaths (Rachel Corrie, Emmett Till, Alice Ayres, H. Jones), but those are invariably in circumstances where the death prompted a significant public reaction to the extent the the death itself becomes the "well-documented historic event" required by Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Crime victims and perpetrators. This pseudo-article manages to get even the most basic facts such as his nationality wrong (he was a Brit who happened to be working in Guyana, not Guyanese), and does not indicate in any way how or why his murder was any more notable than anyone else's. Without "persistent coverage of the event in reliable secondary sources that devote significant attention to the individual's role" this is a clear violation of .&nbsp;–&nbsp
— User:Iridescent, 08:26, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:VICTIM (Wikipedia:Notability)