Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shooting of John Crawford III
The topic of the article is notable, worthy of notice; significant and interesting enough to deserve attention or to be recorded. It clearly meets the criteria for inclusion in General Notability  and Events . It has received extensive coverage in highly reliable sources that are independent of the subject, and it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article. There are many informed avenues for developing this article, e.g. about the Dayton area police, their treatment of other individuals in this case (including John's girlfriend), contrasts by reliable sources with other cases of individuals openly carrying guns in public, and the explanations by reliable sources as to why these events were treatred differently, the Federal US investigation, the lawsuit filed by his family, the broader contexts that illuminated this case and are informed by it, etc. This event has demonstrated lasting effect, has already had widespread national impact and has been very widely covered in diverse sources (). It has frequently been re-analyzed afterwards. It has already shown /. "If a matter is deemed notable, and to be a likely crime, the article should remain even if it is subsequently found that no crime occurred." /CA. The event shows lasting effects, geographical scope (featured in major protests across the USA), and depth of coverage, duration of coverage, and diversity of sources. Maintaining a general article on 2014 police-violence protests and separate articles on notable instances of police violence is appropriate for an encyclopedia
— User:Benefac, 04:21, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:EVENTS||WP:DIVERSE||WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE||WP:PERSISTENCE||WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)