Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katherine Phillips
Agree with move to Katherine Phillips detention incident. I agree that we are not a news service, but this is not really even a big news story at this point. The tabloids and the news channels have not covered it at all. The three references are Reuters, The Arab Times, and International Schools Review. It is not a routine crime story, but more of a case of teacher abuse in Kuwait, which could be an article. The teacher (actually assistant principal) allegedly ran afoul of a rich Kuwaiti businessman by giving his son a day's detention in the office for fighting in school. Now the government of that country won't let her leave on grounds that she "put him in jail" illegally. The references include other instances of powerful and rich families threatening teachers for trying to punish their children for cheating, or for giving them low grades. The International Schools Review has as a result advised foreigh teacher not to return to Kuwait. The teacher fails , but the incident of a teacher following school policies blowing up into a minor international incident is somewhat notable. At the same time, if someone at the White House made a call to the Emir and the teacher was allowed to leave the country, it would be a tempest in a teapot and not very encyclopedic. This is not "Help people who feel threatened and are getting bullied by rich jerks-pedia" or "Substitute for the US Embassy which is not doing its job-pedia
— User:Edison, 17:21, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)