Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jocelyne Couture-Nowak (second nomination)
I understand what you say, but the discussion for some of us is beyond the criterion for notability that you suggest, namely, that simply because a person is the primary subject of multiple sources, does not make them notable -- it's a subtle distinction which I think causes the confusion we see above. I have a post up above in which I describe this reasoning fully, but the gist is that there are times when people are covered for reasons not having to do with their own notability, when otherwise unremarkable people are focused-on, often by the group they represent (in Couture-Nowak's case French-Canadadian media etc), because of their unwilling participation in a notable event. I think that's the case here. Such coverage is properly termed "incidental", as  clearly spells out.  This is designed presumably to avoid victims' lists, and also to distance Wikipedia from the notion that notability is inherited, more or less speaking.  Obviously we must put our personal opinions aside -- and I for one am making no judgment call on the appropriateness of various Canadian (and other) news sources taking Couture-Nowak's death as a subject. My thought, which many share, is that she, in and of herself, was not accomplished enough to be deemed notable -- and that strictly speaking the focus she's received post-VTech is incidental to that tragedy.  Again, read my post way up above, in which I closely read .  Of course, there are refinements on my reasoning. The entry for Megan Kanka comes to mind -- a poor girl who didn't live long enough to do anything notable, and who wouldn't have been in this encyclopedia were it not for the law inspired be her case, Megan's Law. Had an entry been written about Megan Kanka just by virtue of her death, it would probably have been unwarranted based on notability. Subsequent to the prominence of that legislation, she, being the sole victim, would have her notability raised.  As it stands, I and many others have, thus far, seen no reason to single out Couture-Nowak for a separate article.  I welcome your comments
— User:Pablosecca, 08:47, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)