Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kayla Rolland
In |What Wikipedia is not says "News reports. Wikipedia properly considers the long-term historical notability of persons and events, keeping in mind the harm our work might cause. The fact that someone or something has been in the news for a brief period of time does not automatically justify an encyclopedia article. While Wikipedia strives to be comprehensive, the policies on biographies of living persons and neutral point of view should lead us to appropriately contextualize events. The briefer the appearance of a subject in the news the less likely it is to create an acceptably comprehensive encyclopedic biography. Even when news events themselves merit an encyclopedia article of their own, additional biographies of person(s) involved may not be necessary as they could largely duplicate relevant information. Timely news articles, however, are welcome on our sister project Wikinews." In |Biographies of living persons is "Wikipedia articles that contain information about living people can affect a subject's life. Wikipedia is a top-ten website, and with such prominence comes a measure of responsibility. Wikipedia is, fundamentally, a project that aims to improve the world. This means approaching the subjects of our articles with compassion, grace and understanding." The shooting victim is notable only for the one event. We are not a memorial site, and the reference websites are self-described as memorials. There were in fact 5 or so independent wire service stories, showing thaty  is satisfied, but as argued inthe essay NEWS we are not a newspaper archive or crime archive. In this instance, the shooter (now a teenager) was a 6 year old and was not held legally liable for the event. The references tell his mother's name and will forever brand him with this, even though his own name is not explicitly stated. The victim's mother's personal issues do not need to be published in a prominent website, any more than info about the shooter's father having been in jail. The harm done outweighs the slight encyclopedic importance of a 6 year old shooting and killing a 6 year old. It did not lead to major effects on society like new laws, nor to books or movies. Just a sad event with a burst of news stories, one of 11 thousand homicides by shooting each year in the U.S., each of which gets multiple press stories. http://www.ichv.org/Statistics.htm
— User:Edison, 18:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:BLP||WP:N||WP:NOTNEWS (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)