Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samuel Legg

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Sandstein 10:43, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Samuel Legg

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Following BLPN discussion, this article should be deleted as a violation of WP:BLPCRIME + egregious BLP violations. The subject has not yet been convicted of any crime as of today[1], except "malicious evasion of alimony"... Yet our article says " is an American serial killer and rapist responsible for the murders of at least five women in Ohio and Illinois during the 1990s" + "suspicion of killing his 14-year-old stepdaughter, but he was only exposed in 2019, thanks to DNA profiling". Currently, he has not faced trial for any charges due to mental capacity, thus no conviction. The article cannot be salvaged currently, so I don't think anything less than deletion will resolve the issue. I've no issue with recreation if the subject ends up convicted, or dies, but in the meantime it's a BLP violation. An admin may wish to invoke WP:BLPDELETE on this / Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Deangelo_Martin. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Based on the information noted by the nominator, that the subject of the article in fact hasn't been convicted of the charges that the article discusses, it would seem this article should be deleted until the issue is resolved. Deathlibrarian (talk) 16:15, 20 September 2020 (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.