Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lisa McMurray
this statistic (and the unfortunate woman is indeed but a statistic) can easily be covered at Prevalence of rabies. If someone returns to NI from Africa next year and dies of rabies, will we delete this article and have one on that individual, and so on? Will we be having articles on the first rabies victim in the Netherlands in 63 years, the first typhoid victim in Denmark in 87 years, the first heart attack victim in France in 13 seconds? The slippery slope potentialities are myriad. True, lots of papers mentioned the case, but that's their job - ours is to record ''encyclopedic'' events, |not news. The present case falls into the latter category, no doubt
— User:Biruitorul, 05:31, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTNEWS (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)