Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jocelyne Couture-Nowak (second nomination)
to Virginia Tech Massacre. We shouldn't rely on those reports as the reason for keeping the article. If this person is notable, so is basically every 9/11 victim who received an extensive media coverage due to reaction to his death or the way he died. We have previously deleted (see Wikipedia:9/11_victims#Archived_discussions|archived debates) several such articles regardless of apparent media coverage, and I would normally foresee a similar result here. Furthermore, if all biographies on Wikipedia are constructed to only focus on major aspects of notability, this one would contain the sole sentence: "Jocelyne M. Couture-Nowak (1958 - April 16, 2007) was an instructor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia and was a victim of the Virginia Tech massacre". Either continuing to her personal life as a non-notable teacher, or focusing the entire article on the way she died, would be entirely unencyclopedic. I believe this is a good example when we should |ignore all rules and simply |apply common sense
— User:Michaelas10, 17:09, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:IAR||WP:UCS (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)