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 merge to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal. Redirect afterwards. The non-formatted keep !votes did not provide a policy-based reason.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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The notability of the person is not met. His death is notable and his murder case are notable, but not him. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 17:45, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Withdraw nomination and rename to murder of Daniel Faulkner or something similar. I see no rationale to delete, since the bulk of that article concerns the murder, which the nominator agrees is notable. I suggest that the nominator withdraw this deletion nomination, and just rename the article remove the biography paragraph. No need for AFD here. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:33, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Amatulic's suggestion. --Wingtipvorte^X (talk) ∅ 20:49, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Absurd - please close frivolous AfD This does not really merit comment or discussion. Also renaming this to add excessive words to the article title is not useful in any way and violates article naming convention. There are quite a number of articles about people who were assassinated, murdered, involved in famous incidents, etc. which focus on the reason they are most notable. It's a slippery slope argument which can only lead to some conclusion like adding more words to the article title than are necessary to describe its topic. Obotlig ☣ ^interrogate 21:18, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal. - Presidentman talk · contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 21:24, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Absurd - please close frivolous AfD In complete agreement with Obotlig above. CCS81 (talk) 22:21, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename to Murder of Daniel Faulkner per Amatulic. This is no more absurd than lots of other deletion nominations. Many articles involving the death of an individual are named for the incident rather than the person if that is the main, or only, reason for notability so I don't see how it violates any naming conventions. Slippery slope arguments are almost always logical fallicies. AIRcorn (talk) 22:47, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:19, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:19, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal. There is no individual notability for Faulkner. There is nothing exceptional about his career that would establish that an standalone article is justified. -- Whpq (talk) 15:23, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Absurd - please close frivolous AfD - nonsense Afd.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:26, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal. Given that this article already exists and it was the trial more so than the murder itself that captured media attention, I think this is the better option rather than renaming to Murder of David Faulkner. Some cases are known for the victim (i.e. Matthew Shepard), but this case is better known for the perpetrator (i.e. Mumia Abu-Jamal). I don't think there is sufficient notability as a victim for an article to be named after the officer. Location (talk) 20:54, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Absurd - please close frivolous AfD Suggest to please leave article as is. -=vyruss=- (talk) 15:11, 18 July 2012 (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.