Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quilem Registre Taser incident

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The result was merge to List of people who died after being tasered in Canada. Black Kite 12:59, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quilem Registre Taser incident

Article about an event of police brutality that violates WP:NOT#NEWS which states "Wikipedia considers the historical notability of persons and events. News coverage can be useful source material for encyclopedic topics, but not all events warrant an encyclopedia article of their own" and WP:N as the incident itself hasn't only been reported on and not discussed in the depth required to become an encyclopedia article. Them From Space 16:00, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to List of people who died after being tasered in Canada. Although there seem to be quite a few "_____ Taser incident" articles on Wikipedia, created from the news, this one does not seem to be notable on its own. Mandsford (talk) 19:32, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Insufficient notability (one event) for stand alone article. ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:14, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The subject of this article is one thing, the historical notability of the event quite another. In fact, the event is of critical importance in understanding the issues surrounding NOT the alleged police brutality (as the nominator would like to believe), but rather, the mounting controversy surrounding the use of police tasers. Actually, I'm sort of puzzled by this nomination. Obviously, the article is well referenced, stable and most certainly neutral. Are you sure you have not overextended yourself somehow? --Poeticbent talk 03:41, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Selective merge to List of people who died after being tasered in Canada, up to 1 paragraph seems reasonable. Disclosure: per Talk:Quilem Registre Taser incident#Notability tag, I had placed a {{Notability}} tag July 2008. ~~I plan to adapt that rationale here.~~ Flatscan (talk) 04:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Since this incident received national coverage, this article easily passes WP:Verifiability. Many of the deaths in List of people who died after being tasered in Canada are cited to national sources such as CBC News and The Globe and Mail, but only two have independent articles. Registre was tasered within 24 hours of Robert Dziekański's death, dying four days later. The close timing has caused the two incidents to be mentioned together in news articles, despite having no actual connection. Registre's family continues (through mid-2008) to advocate for an investigation into the incident, receiving a small amount of follow-up coverage. I think this is insufficient to support a stand-alone article.
  If this incident foreshadows a controversy or forms a noteworthy pattern, an article should look at the big picture. Covering the encompassing issue in this article would be a WP:COATRACK. Flatscan (talk) 04:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have placed notifications based on {{adw}} on the Talk pages of 4 related Taser articles. Editors have occasionally suggested coverage of other incidents there, and I think this AfD would benefit from the input of interested editors. Flatscan (talk) 04:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
1. Talk:List of people who died after being tasered in Canada – proposed merge target (diff)
2. Talk:Robert Dziekański Taser incident – prominent Canadian incident, most active related article (diff)
3. Talk:Taser – main article (diff)
4. Talk:Taser safety issues (formerly Taser controversy) – sub-article relevant to deaths (diff)
Keep. The incident has been reported but also discussed in relation to Taser use in Canada and elsewhere. While much of the discussion is French-language I think the incident and article meet eligibility requirements here. RomaC (talk) 05:38, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to List of people who died after being tasered in Canada. As others state, the incident appears to be important in relation to taser deaths in Canada, so that's the context in which it should be discussed. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:15, 18 March 2009 (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.