Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nadya Suleman (2nd nomination)
per solid nomination and Tocino; explained below. '''Redirect''' per the very solid nomination. While the event is arguably notable, the fact that a woman named Nadya Suleman happens to be involved in that event is completely trivial. Raeky, arguing for "strong keep," states the following: "I think to state that she's notable for just the octuplets isn't reflected in the shear number of news articles written about her. Laws are being enacted to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. The doctor that did this is under investigation. Legal battles will most likely arise about custody (hospital is already refusing to release to her)." The problem with this reasoning is that the legal and ethical discussions could have been prompted by this type of ''event'', regardless of who was involved in the event. There does not appear to be anything physically or psychologically interesting about Suleman that would render her uniquely predisposed to have octuplets, and it does not appear that she has contributed in important ways to the surrounding debate. Her involvement in the entire spectacle seems to be entirely coincidental. As an analogy, let's suppose that a tiger escapes from the zoo and eats a guy. And let's suppose that, later on, we discover that the tiger's name is Bill and that his meal's name is Bob. And finally, let's suppose that the tragic encounter between Bill and Bob leads to heated debate about animal confinement and zoo safety. Does this mean we should create Bill (tiger) and Bob (tiger's lunch)? Of course not! Who they are/were is immaterial; all that matters is that chance happened to bring them together in a way that commentators seized upon. And yet it might even be ''more'' appropriate to talk about poor Bob than about Nadya Suleman, because the latter is alive and therefore falls under the protection of . BLP states, "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid paper; it is not our job to be sensationalist." A separate article about Suleman is sensationalist. Gutter journalism is sensationalist. An encyclopedia, in contrast, does not focus on a person just because other sources have focused on the person; it focuses on a person when other sources have demonstrated that a person is ''worth focusing on'' at the potential expense of that person's privacy
— User:Cosmic, 18:22, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)