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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Archibeque

: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 redirect to Murder of Mary Quigley. MBisanz talk 00:39, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

=[[Richard Archibeque]]=

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Lacks Notability, Biography of Living Person Criteria Poettobe (talk) 19:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Keep Why are Richard Ramirez, Richard Allen Davis and the multitude of others [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_rapists here] "notoable", while Richard Archibeque, a serial rapist and murderer who raped and murdered and hung a teenage high school student on a cyclone fence naked in a public place not notable? Also, checkout the Wiki Crime Project at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Crime_and_Criminal_Biography Cloudswrest (talk) 21:07, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Delete Tragic news content is not necessarily notable or biographical. The mission of the Wikipedia encyclopedia is to catalog material with enduring usefulness, not to be a crime registry and/or a repository of current events and memorials. Update: Because all the information in this article is about the case, not the person, it should be merged with the article about the case Murder of Mary Quigley, although I do not think that article should be kept either since the case lacks landmarks as noted by MacGyverMagic. Since the perpetrator has no distinct profile, he should also be referred to as "Richard Armand Archibeque" the way three names are used for the Richard Allen Davis profile rather than just Richard Archibeque since search engines bring up multiple people named Richard Archibeque (ie Business Ad for Cement Mason Richard Archibeque from NM- the first hit on Yahoo [http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=richard+archibeque&fr=yfp-t-106&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8]. The three names creates distinction [http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=richard+armand+archibeque&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8])). Three names should probably also be used for Richard Ramirez, although at least he has a profile name, "The Night Stalker".--Poettobe (talk) 06:56, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Comment Richard Ramirez had some relevance to the work of AC/DC and Richard Allen Davis (I'm not too happy with how his record is included there) had an effect on California's "Three strikes law" for repeat offenders. Crimes tend to be covered when they are important in a greater context or have lasting consequences on law/justice. - Mgm|(talk) 22:53, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Delete. There's no biographical information in the "biography" at all. It's based entirely on his latest conviction and the case surrounding it. The event may be notable, but he is not. If that case is notable, the information should be written into an article on the case. Perhaps merging this article to Murder of Mary Quigley would be best. ₳dam Zel 14:05, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Comment Maybe an entire article should be created for "Cold cases solved with DNA" since this is not the only case. The Rape and Murder of Linda Bennitt took place in 1984. The case was reopened in 2007. Mark "" Erler was charged in August 2008 and convicted February 2009. [http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2009/02/13/news/lake/doc35863ca9efe5b7818625755b007edc6d.txt] [http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/cold.case.mark.2.745200.html]. There is a whole list of these cases for Denver alone, and there is a name to the project, DENVER COLD CASE PROJECT [http://www.denverda.org/DNA/DNA_Cold_Case_Project.htm]. Update: There is already a similar cold case solved by DNA example in Wikipedia: Cold case- Characteristics of a criminal cold case- Notable Examples: 2005 Edmond Jay Marr pleaded guilty to the March 1983 kidnap and murder of Elaine Graham [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_case#Notable_Examples]. I do not know if the Elaine Graham case is the first of this kind. ABC News also has several article on this issue, and suggests that DNA follow-up could be appropriate for tens of thousands of cases [http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=dna%20cold%20case%20rape&type=]--Poettobe (talk) 08:28, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

:Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Pastor Theo (talk) 02:34, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

:Delete per WP:BLP1E and WP:NOT#NEWS. Even the event itself does not appear to be terribly notable as a murderer/rape case, so I don't see that there's much here for long-term encyclopedic relevence. The article seems to violate WP:NOT#MEMORIAL as the article seems to be little more than a memorial to one of his victims (check the external links section) and there does not appear to be any lasting importance of this case according to any reliable sources. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 02:56, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

: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.