User talk:Stoneb

Joseph Didier murder

While your comments are well taken, we have decided that the murder of Joseph Didier is not sufficiently notable for inclusion at Wikipedia. There were two major issues:

The article had become a bit of a soapbox for rallying support to keep the murderer from gaining parole. (Frankly, I hope he rots in jail, or worse.) Alas, this sort of material is simply not allowed in Wikipedia by longstanding policy.
Didier's murder simply did not rise to the level of notability required at Wikipedia, primarily because it involved only one victim and did not receive significant press coverage across a wide area. Sadly, single-victim homicides are all too common in our country. Because of that fact, the Wikipedia community had to set a standard for notability of such crimes are it relates to inclusion in Wikipedia. In other words, if we had an article about every single-victim homicide, Wikipedia would be overrun with such articles. It usually takes multiple victims in a single event, or by one murderer over a period of time (serial killer). Single-victim homicides may qualify for inclusion if the crime attracted widespread, significant coverage by the news media. I realize that setting such a standard is a bit ghoulish, but we had to do something.

I hope you understand our position. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 16:16, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]