Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder of Rachel Moran
Per "Memorials. Wikipedia is not the place to honor departed friends and relatives. Subjects of encyclopedia articles must be notable besides being fondly remembered." Also, there is a new provision there that 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." This should apply as well to nonliving crime victims, as expressed in the essay NEWS.  Arguing for "keep" is the fact that a book about the murder (written by her mother) has achieved sales since its publication this past March to gain a rank of about 200,000th in sales (out of 4,000,000 books for sale) on Amazon, and the fact that it was written up in sufficient reliable and independent sources to satisfy . I think the balance is in favor of deletion
— User:Edison, 22:43, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:NOTNEWS||WP:N (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)