Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shonelle Jackson

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Cannot find any evidence of WP:SIGCOV in reliable sources that significantly focus on him (except for a few paragraphs in a single New Yorker article). As it stands, this article fails WP:GNG because I cannot find any evidence that he, or his crimes, had any lasting relevance that is not simply routine coverage. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 22:40, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Withdrawn by nominator - since there's a lot of sources I apparently missed. In light of this, the topic is clearly notable. My apologies for wasting the community's time.

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 22:40, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

:Well, the New Yorker article is definitely sigcov, calling it a few paragraphs is understating it. Haven’t checked for other stuff yet and one source can’t prove notability but just wanted to note PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:43, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Alabama. Shellwood (talk) 22:54, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
• Keep. As PARAKANYAA noted, calling the coverage in [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/double-jeopardy-3 the New Yorker article] a "few paragraphs" is quite misleading — it is a lengthy feature article that is more or less exclusively about this case. There are even a few sources about the New Yorker piece itself [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/dec/20/serial-is-over-but-here-are-seven-true-crime-stories-to-fill-the-gap] [https://www.al.com/news/2014/11/in_alabama_the_judges_play_god.html] (although to be clear I don't think these contribute independently towards notability). Beyond that, these two pieces in the Los Angeles Times [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-16-me-override16-story.html] [https://www.proquest.com/docview/1625884546] also qualify as SIGCOV in my view. There's also a brief discussion of the case in at least a few academic sources [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24871299?seq=1] [https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/ChambleeMulvaneyFinalPDF_h54zqqsj.pdf]. It seems to be most notable as a commonly cited example of judicial override in Alabama, and has received coverage for that reason over an extended period of time. MCE89 (talk) 14:51, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

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