Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vernon Booher

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The result was keep. ✗plicit 00:37, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Biography of a murderer, not reliably sourced as having any strong claim to passing our inclusion criteria for criminals. As always, Wikipedia is not a "true crime" database that aspires to indiscriminately maintain articles about every individual person who was ever convicted of a crime -- to justify an article about a criminal, we need to see a reason why his crime would still be of enduring significance decades later.
But that's absent here, and the sourcing consists of one 70-year-old magazine article and one unreliable source that isn't support for notability at all, which is not even close to enough referencing to establish the permanent notability of a criminal. Bearcat (talk) 16:52, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime and Alberta. Bearcat (talk) 16:52, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:05, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and Eventify. The individual who committed the murders is almost certainly not notable. However, I'm seeing a lot of sources that talk about the specific set of murders and show that the murder passes the ten-year test. These include coverage in the Encyclopedia of Murder (1962), Psychic Detectives: The Mysterious Use of Paranormal Phenomena in Solving True Crimes (2002), the Encyclopedia of World Crime (1989), and multiple sources attest to The Vernon Booher Murder Case (1979) as being about this specific set of murders. The MacLeans piece cited in the article was even written 21 years after the killings that Booher was hanged for occurred, so the event has shown itself to have enduring notability. Since WP:BIO1E lays out that[t]he general rule is to cover the event, not the person when a person is covered almost solely in the context of one event, and the event appears to be notable, the portions of the material that are well-sourced should be preserved for use in an article about the event that was the 1929 killings. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 20:35, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. A mass murder of four people is clearly notable. And plenty has been written about Booher and the killings. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:44, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per above discussion. Bearian (talk) 18:52, 2 June 2022 (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.