Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Paddock
despite the number of !votes to the contrary. The argument that there won't be enough coverage specific to the perpetrator because he didn't live to be tried is without merit—Charles Whitman, perpetrator of the University of Texas tower shooting, likewise died on the scene but that didn't prevent ample coverage specific to the perpetrator. We already know that Stephen Paddock's background is atypical for mass shooters; further investigation will only underscore this fact and expand upon it.  doesn't apply—it is about cases where the ''occurrence'' of the event itself, or its own factual characteristics, are speculative. The guidelines themselves explicitly allow, and even ''mandate'', predictions of the level of future ''coverage'' of events—for example,  within  explicitly bases notability decisions on what level of coverage is "likely" in the future
— NONE, NONE
Stance: keep
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