Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin Hermansen

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The result was Move to Murder of Benjamin Hermansen. seems to be the consensus here Fritzpoll (talk) 13:42, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin Hermansen

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Non-notable person know for just one event, namely, his death. Damiens.rf 14:41, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Norway-related deletion discussions. __meco (talk) 15:18, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. __meco (talk) 15:18, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. __meco (talk) 15:18, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Then we should do away with Eugene Ejike Obiora also, for the same reason? __meco (talk) 15:20, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and move to Murder of Benjamin Hermansen. The murder sparked a massive reaction in Norway, and there are lots of sources that could be used to write a longer article. For instance there is this article from Dagbladet five years after the murder, and the murder is mentioned in Store norske leksikons article about Norway after 1980. However the focus of the article should be shifted to the reactions, the first sentence of its kind in Norway, the Benjaminprize, and maybe the recent controversy about the testament that gave one of the murderers large gift for his fight against immigration in Norway, and not about the specific person. Rettetast (talk) 16:09, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, but maybe rewrite to be about the case. Extreeeemely notable. Geschichte (talk) 09:38, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The racial motivation behind the murder caused a great deal of consternation in Norway, sparking debate over neo-Nazi groups, and major demonstrations with tens of thousands of people. At least one general purpose paper encyclopedia (Store norske leksikon, old version, before it became an open encyclopedia, so it's reliable) covers the murder in a separate article [1] (not merely the "Norway after 1980" article), so this event is "encyclopedic" in the most literal sense possible. The article should also mention that about a year ago, the event caused a second wave of controversy when a commitee was set down to divide an inheritance to people "working against foreign immigration to Norway", which at one point proposed giving a large sum of this money to Ole Nicolai Kvisler, one of the people convicted of murdering Benjamin. In complying with the BLP1E policy of "cover the event, not the person", renaming to Murder of Benjamin Hermansen as Rettetast suggested, or Holmlia murder which is the title SNL use, is a valid option, but deletion is absolutely the wrong thing to do. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:53, 18 August 2009 (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.