Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of victims of the Columbine High School massacre
This is clearly an improper use of the claim of , which states: ''Memorials. Wikipedia is not the place to honor departed friends and relatives.  Subjects of encyclopedia articles must be notable besides being fondly remembered.''.  This is not a matter of the sobbing friends and family of a departed loved one, posting the kid's myspace page on the Wikipedia.  The tone of the ''Memorials'' guideline is to avoid making special pages for otherwise non-notable individuals just because they died prematurely or otherwise.  Groups of people involved in a massacre are different.  The Columbine High School massacre|Columbine massacre, like the Virginia Tech massacre and September 11, 2001 attacks|9-11, was a National Tragedy, as students, families, and the general national population was effected in some way.  While it is true that the dear students themselves, rest in peace, were not particularly notable before the event, the ''list'' of them becomes notable because of the global interest in the event.  That said - I would strongly argue against creating special pages for each of the students themselves, unless there were other notability factors, like perhaps documented heroic acts performed before death, that sort of thing, and then it would have to be very well documented, not urban legend material
— User:T, 18:20, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:MEMORIAL (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)