Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 Richmond High School gang rape
although I won't shed a tear if it is deleted. The split between NOTNEWS !votes and N/CA !votes is stark, but in reality people are talking across each other rather than engaging the issue. The NOTNEWS camp holds that this article, irrespective of verifiability, NPOV, and notability of the material, is not appropriate, and cannot be made appropriate. The N/CA folk are essentially saying that there is plenty of coverage from which an article can be written. In other words, one group asks "could we" while the other asks "should we". I come down moderately as saying "we should". There all ready is coverage that addresses the larger context of this event, see http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/2009/11/04/1104swan_edit.html here for example, or listen to the audio coverage http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114287592&ps=rs here (notice both of the opining professors are blue links). Since notability, in the sense of independant coverage in wp:reliable sources|reliable sources cannot reasonably be challenged, I think that an article treating the event is appropriate. I will confess to reservations about BLP issues, which I encountered http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2009_Richmond_High_School_gang_rape&action=historysubmit&diff=323476997&oldid=323475774 early on with this article, and eventually prompted me to list it on the /N|BLP noticeboard, but I think that there are enough sets of eyes to keep things under control
— User:Xymmax, 16:52, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BLP (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)