Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder of Louise Smith

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:53, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Murder of Louise Smith

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Fails WP:EVENTCRIT " A violent crime, accidental death, or other media event may be interesting enough to reporters and news editors to justify coverage, but this will not always translate into sufficient notability for a Wikipedia article." A Google search for "Louise Smith Shane Mays" for results after 1 January 2021 (days after the sentencing) reveals only two main events which are both routine: the appeal to increase the sentence was rejected [1] in February 2021, and a review in January 2022 [2] found that the victim received no support after reporting an unrelated rape a year earlier. While it may sound callous to say, there is little that points to any lasting notability of this crime, which occurred in a year of 594 homicides in the UK. When I see the other few crimes in Category:2020 murders in the United Kingdom, they received heavy coverage for wider issues or unusual aspects: the Murders of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman involved racist and sexist gross police misconduct and a truly senseless motive; the murder of Matt Ratana was of a serving policeman in his station by a handcuffed man who then became severely disabled in a suicide attempt; the killing of Emily Jones was a stranger attack on a child and involved mental health and immigration controversies. Again, it may sound callous but females being killed by men known to them is not unusual and the lack of extensive coverage besides news updates shows that Unknown Temptation (talk) 11:57, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime, Events, and England. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 12:06, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and lack of WP:LASTING effect. Clarityfiend (talk) 12:38, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. Note that this is not the same crime described in the now-deleted Draft:Murder of Louise Smith, which was briefly in the mainspace under the same title in 2017. Mackensen (talk) 13:49, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete agree with the nomination. Such is the risk of creating articles on events as they happen ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 15:00, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Textbook example of a newsworthy tragic incident that isn't a suitable topic for a general encyclopaedia. Would be suitable as a mention in a Crime in Havant, Murders in the United Kingdom in 2020 or similar article but not worthy of inclusion as a standalone subject. Waggers TALK 08:40, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Horrible horrific event that seems to be NEWS. RIP poor girl.★Trekker (talk) 19:46, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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