Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cody Legebokoff
A prosecution of someone for being a serial killer can be encyclopedic, when like this one there are multiple reliable news sources having significant coverage. Renaming the article to be about the trial rather than the individual is an improvement. Ideally the article would be about the crime or crimes rather than the alleged perpetrator, but the news stories used as refs do not provide such a common name for the set of killings. It would be a longish title if we moved the article to The killings of Jill Stuchenko, Cynthia Maas, Natasha Montgomery and Loren Leslie,.  It is reminiscent of the awkwardness of titling the article about the three young women kidnapped in Cincinnatti.  But apparently the police and the media did not nickname the series of killings,or the killer like BTK Killer or Hillside Strangler. Lacking a Jack the Ripper or Boston strangler title, an article about the trial seems the best option. The  language calling for discretion is clearly not a ban on articles mentioning the names of those arrested or being tried for crimes. Wikipedia is not under the Sub judice requirements of British law preventing media mention of the accused. And even when the trial results in an acquittal, it is appropriate to have an article about it if there has been sufficient coverage to make it encyclopedic, such as George Zimmerman and State of Florida v. George Zimmerman and O. J. Simpson murder case and  Death of Caylee Anthony, to mention but three notable acquittals. In fact, Wikipedia has an entire category of "People acquitted of murder" which presently has 158 entries.  It would not be appropriate or encyclopedic to try and hush up all acquittals, any more than to stifle coverage of notable trials and crimes
— User:Edison, 19:02, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)