Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Charlie's prostitution of a child
surely uncontroversially. It's hard to credit that people are really suggesting that something purporting to be an encyclopedia should include a lengthy entry on an individual criminal act and subsequent trial, under this ungainly title, simply on the basis that it has been reported on primarily in a couple of contemporaneous news-in-brief stubs in local papers – and, by implication, that every such incident should have its own WP entry. Those who, as so frequently happens in AFD debates, are simply saying "Keep – meets GNG", presumably on the basis that "it has sources", need to read a little deeper and think a bit harder both about actual policy and this topic. GNG is simply a broad statement of the minimum standard for notability (and in any event requires "significant coverage", which is defined as "more than just routine news reports"; a further qualification states, "Even a large number of news reports that provide no critical analysis of the event is not considered significant coverage"). And even if a topic is deemed to reach the standard under that broad guideline, it still has to not fall short of the policy , which explicitly says "most newsworthy events do not qualify for inclusion". Then, even if that hurdle is cleared, we still only have a "presumption" – not a "guarantee" – that a standalone article is merited. Further detail and clarification is provided at , especially the section CRIT, which explicitly says: "Routine kinds of news events (including most crimes, accidents, deaths, celebrity or political news, 'shock' news, stories lacking lasting value such as 'water cooler stories,' and viral phenomena) – whether or not tragic or widely reported at the time – are usually not notable unless something further gives them additional enduring significance". Subsequent subsections clarify how the geographical scope, depth and duration of coverage, and whether the incident had wider lasting effects, affect notability. Can anyone seriously read those sections, review the pretty sparse coverage being relied on for this article, and say those requirements are satisfied here
— User:N, 13:42, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT||WP:EVENT||WP:EVENTCRIT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)