Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sabrina Harman
Harman has significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent news sources, stretching from 2003 when the actions in question took place until the present, shown by http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=sabrina+harman&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_user_ldate=2003&as_user_hdate=2010&lr=&as_src=&as_price=p0&as_scoring=a 1550 instances of coverage at Google News archive . In 2010 alone, so far, she has http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22sabrina+harman%22&num=10&as_price=p0&as_user_ldate=2003&as_user_hdate=2010&scoring=a&hl=en&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=2010/01&as_hdate=2010/12&lnav=hist7 32 instances of news coverage per Google News archive, proving the continuing interest in and coverage of her actions and their consequences. Google Book Search shows http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1,bkv:a&tbo=p&q=%22sabrina+harman%22&num=10 527 hits for Sabrina Harman. According to one http://books.google.com/books?id=MdIEqP3sz6kC&pg=PA70&dq=%22sabrina+harman%22&hl=en&ei=x_hrTOGRK829nAeiz8n7Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22sabrina%20harman%22&f=false extended review of Harman's life in a book, she was interviewed by CNN in 2004 and by the news program 20/20 in 2005, which is not the behavior I would expect of a person seeking to "disappear" from public notice.  She is given prominent coverage in a number of books about women in modern warfare, such as http://books.google.com/books?id=jWWdwas04KsC&pg=PA195&dq=%22sabrina+harman%22&hl=en&ei=x_hrTOGRK829nAeiz8n7Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22sabrina%20harman%22&f=false. Her tearful apology at her trial is cited as a model of an effective apology in the book "Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust(2009)" http://books.google.com/books?id=xUgh0Adjj4QC&pg=PA70&dq=%22sabrina+harman%22&hl=en&ei=r_xrTL_zH9WLnQfgyOGQAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=%22sabrina%20harman%22&f=false pages 69-70, showing her continuing importance in our culture. Harman receives extended coverage in the high school history textbook "Understanding American Government, Alternate Edition (2009)" http://books.google.com/books?id=IjmSwfQl38oC&pg=PA403&dq=%22sabrina+harman%22&hl=en&ei=vPprTLqTJ8G_nAeM3LXYAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22sabrina%20harman%22&f=false page 403, showing that she clearly satisfies  more convincingly than 90% of the persons with Wikipedia biographies. The nominator says one reason to delete is that she just got a 6 month sentence, but others got sentences of ten years and three years. "The Lucifer Effect(2008)" http://books.google.com/books?id=vjeHCA6i4IAC&pg=PA411&dq=%22sabrina+harman%22&hl=en&ei=r_xrTL_zH9WLnQfgyOGQAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=%22sabrina%20harman%22&f=false page 273 by psychologist Phil Zimbardo says Harman got the 6 month sentence because of evidence presented of prior acts of kindness toward Iraqis, which partially offset her improper actions toward prisoners, such as attaching wires to the hooded man standing on the box in the classic photo. The balance of good versus evil done by a person resulting in a particular sentence in no way is the proper basis to judge notability of a criminal. This is not just some embarrassing incident which the world will forget if the Wikipedia article about the individual is removed, so BLP1E is not that relevant
— User:Edison, 15:27, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)