Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Matthew Crooks: Difference between revisions

 

:'''Redirect''' to [[Attempted assassination of Donald Trump#Perpetrator]]. Obvious BLP1E. There's some [[WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS]] regarding John Hinckley Jr and John Schrank. I consider those different because they ''survived'' and were tried - meaning there is a deal of independent coverage about the trials and aftermath, which is ''derived'' from the assassination attempt but ''separate'' and establishes notability. Likewise, [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] survived, was arrested and then assassinated himself by Ruby, who was associated with the mob, which spawned some highly developed conspiracy theories. By contrast, it seems unlikely that there is going to be a great deal of coverage about Crooks that is not ''directly'' related to the shooting (so per [[WP:LAGGING]] he should be a section of the main article until there's enough to be worth splitting out). Unless it turns out there was some wild conspiracy and he was in the pay of someone to shoot Trump in favour of a different nominee or something similarly out there (I'm sure QAnon have something cooking up, but we need not concern ourselves with that on WP). As it stands, comparable cases might include the [[Anne, Princess Royal#Kidnapping attempt|attempted kidnapper of Princess Anne]], or the perpetrators of [[Dunblane massacre|the UK's worst mass shooting]]) or the [[2023 Nashville school shooting]] who do not have their own articles. Just because someone did a bad thing and it's in the news doesn't make them notable. None of the UK's mass shooters have their own articles - it requires something additional like Oswald's shooting or a post-shooting trial.[[User:Hemmers|Hemmers]] ([[User talk:Hemmers|talk]]) 16:19, 14 July 2024 (UTC)