Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Connor McCreaddie

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The result was speedy DELETE as attack, BLP violation, and per WP:NOT -Doc^g 23:13, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Connor McCreaddie

Article on obese 8-year-old boy. I'm not sure that there is much notability to be gained by the combination of extremely fat and extremely young. ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 19:34, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There is nothing notable here. Children are threatened for removal and actually removed from homes everyday because their parents don't take proper care of them. Because of the current rise in childhood obesity, cases like this are getting more attention, but Connor is not notable. --Crunch 23:37, 24 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]
Delete - created and edited in good faith, I am sure, but in effect, basically an attack page against a little boy. Newyorkbrad 00:00, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete In agreement with the above. Sadly, I don't know why he would be more notable than other obese children. Acalamari 02:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Tragic as the case may be, the article shows subject has attracted coverage from reliable sources on at least two dates. If I understand the ITV1 credit to the photograph correctly, there may also be television coverage. 80.168.23.201 15:34, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notability is established by reliable sources, and the case received significant news coverage in the UK, both for the boy's extreme weight (a weight of 218lbs, or 15st 8lbs, is almost unheard of for a British 8-year-old), and his mother's conflict with social services over his eating habits. To put it crudely, this isn't just any old fat kid. AdorableRuffian 20:20, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - this particular individual distinguished himself from the run-of-the-mill obese child and generated world-wide press coverage -- Whpq 16:50, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This particular individual is an eight-year-old child. Did he mean to distinguish himself and generate world-wide press coverage, or was such infamy an unfortunate side effect of sensational media coverage meant to promote a poster boy for a perceived public health threat? Is his story even a footnote to the childhood obesity article? There is this mass delusion on Wikipedia that media coverage translates into insta-notability, a delusion that is uncomfortably close to Andy Warhol's concept of fifteen minutes of fame. Are guests of The Jerry Springer Show also notable in their own right? After all, that program is internationally syndicated! ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 20:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.