Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dustin Berg
At base this is still a |BLP1E, and a negative one at that (which makes it worse). The key point for me is that the article section "Long term impact of Berg's shooting" does not in fact demonstrate a long-term impact, nor notability for Berg beyond the crime of which he was convicted. That section makes it clear that increasing calls to re-institute the death penalty in the military, and the move to tighter rules of engagement, did ''not'' stem solely or even primarily from Berg's case, rather his case was just one of many where American GI's behaved badly (to put it mildly). Another way of putting it is that the section as written is not a get-out-of-BLP1E card. Essentially what we have is an ostensibly biographical article with nothing whatsoever about this person and their life (which is what a biography is), but rather a crime scene report and account of an investigation/trial. In a situation like that it's usually a sign that BLP1E is operative and that we should probably not have an article on the person. I would probably be okay with merging this into a general article about notable crimes committed by "coalition" soldiers in Iraq. I do not believe that currently exists (Human rights in post-invasion Iraq and Iraq prison abuse scandals were the closest I could find), but it probably could since there have been general discussions about the phenomenon, and mentions of individual cases would be appropriate. In the context of a possible merge it's worth taking note of some similar AfDs in the past, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James P. Barker and more importantly Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Dale Green. Ultimately the articles on both of these GIs were merged/redirected to Mahmudiyah killings which was quite right in my view. Berg's case is not completely analogous since it was a one-off event involving two people (thus no ready target like Mahmudiyah killings), but it's not the only case of its kind, and we could discuss the most noteworthy examples of violent crimes in a general article (I'm not clever enough to think of a title at the moment). If such an article was created now I'd support a merge, but if not I think this needs to be deleted as a BLP1E, with the content possibly restored and merged later once there is a target for merging
— User:Bigtimepeace, 04:12, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BLP1E (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)