Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 Richmond High School gang rape
I was looking for an article that this one might be merged into, as Llywrch asked, but didn't find anything. But roughly a sixth of the articles in :Category:Rape are mostly or largely about gang rape or some aspect of it: :CATEGORY:War rape (six articles), Ashfield gang rapes, Sydney gang rapes, 2007 De Anza rape investigation, Anjana Mishra rape case, Sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (not now listed in the "War rape" category; appears to be largely gang rape, but maybe not), The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, Chiong murder case, Land, Gold and Women, Denis Mukwege, Murder of Junko Furuta, Eudy Simelane, Shopian rape and murder case, May 2009, Dans l'enfer des tournantes, Super Free, Suryanelli sex scandal, Vilina Vlas, Megan Williams case, and Subic rape case. I was surprised that there were this many articles, and this article seems to fit in with the rest of them, although at this point I'm not sure whether it should be kept. Some of the articles (the last two listed) are about allegations of gang rape that were later dropped (to allegations of a single rape). I do agree that a gang-rape allegation in a high school with students and local people who have abundant Internet access is a nightmare for BLP concerns. And we can expect that a case like this may not be resolved for more than a year. That's a lot of policing. We need to think about the harm Wikipedia can do by having articles like this. The other articles, at least, aren't now current and most don't deal with kids, and many are in poor countries where fewer people will edit. The notability guideline should be stiffened beyond  standards for these kinds of cases
— User:JohnWBarber, 20:39, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)