Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rachel Corrie
The nominator is correct that the otherwise non-notable subject is only notable for , her death. However, the subject is no longer living (indeed that is the point of the article), is not notable for anything that is likely to disparaging to '''her''' (fairly or unfairly, media coverage of Corrie's death has been overwhelmingly sympathetic to her and hostile to Isreal) and the '''worldwide''' publicity surrounding the incident that caused her death is an encyclopedic topic in its own right. The article is not a memorial (most of the article is about the events that occured as a result of her death, rather than a retelling of her life) and if the nominator or others feel that it is memorial-like, this can be corrected by editing, not deletion. The nominator has a reasonable case to argue for deletion but this is one of the very, very, very few ONEEVENT articles worthy of being kept as an encyclopedia topic. I would also resist the temptation to rename the article to something like Death of Rachel Corrie. The event '''is''' Rachel Corrie and Rachel Corrie is the natural name for an article about her death
— User:Mattinbgn, 03:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ONEEVENT (Wikipedia:Notability)