Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 Zurich attack
Obviously I'm partial, since I wrote much of the current article up to this point.  The murder and shooting in Zurich obviously isn't the biggest news story of the day, but it did get picked up widely and I think there is value in recording what happened for present and future interested readers.  Obviously, the http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/world/europe/zurich-mosque-attack.html NYTimes, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/20/zurich-mosque-shooting-motive-unclear-say-police Guardian, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/20/3-injured-shooting-attack-zurich-mosque/95644724/ USA Today, http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/20/europe/zurich-islamic-center-shooting/ CNN, and others in the international press thought so as well.  Would it have been as big a story without the coincident timing and terrorism fears?  Perhaps not.  Though with only 41 murders per year in Switzerland (2014 stat http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/good-behaviour_lowest-number-of-murders-since-records-began/41340944), and even fewer mass shootings, this event was always going to attract a lot of local attention.  We can't cover every crime, but |Wikipedia is not paper and we can cover a lot of crimes, provided reasonable sources are available (as they are in this case
— User:Dragons, 13:02, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTPAPER (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)