Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Natasha Wallen Cornett

Natasha Wallen Cornett was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE

Article does not establish notability. Rick K 23:52, Nov 1, 2004 (UTC)

Delete--the crime doesn't seem particularly notable--I'd love to live in a world where violent car-jackings don't happen regularly, but this isn't it; someone who commits a non-notable crime is also non-notable. Niteowlneils 02:15, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Delete non-notable Krupo 07:41, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)

The Lillelid murders were notable because they were the murder of an entire family of Jehovah's committed by minors, who allegedly were members of a Satanic cult lead by Cornett. Senseless killings committed by minors, with (alleged) occult/Satanic ties, and a significant media frenzy as a result, are notable. --137.111.13.34 08:11, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

For the record, only three members of the family died--a then two year old son survived. Even narrowed to 'murders by teenagers with alledged satanic ties' (from what I've read, it was a random car-jacking, so the coincidence that the family was Jehovahs doesn't seem relevant) is still, unfortunately, fairly common police-blotter material, which seems too routine to be encyclopedic. Niteowlneils 19:50, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

As RickK points out, however, the article did not establish that notability. That media frenzy may in fact make the event notable enough to be encyclopedic (note the "may"; how do we tell which media frenzies will die away to nothing? it's a grey area) but why would the article go under the name of one of the alleged perpetrators, rather than, say, "The Lillelid murders"? -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:17, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Weak Keep and Move to Lillelid murders. -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:17, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Delete: It's terrible that such crimes occur, but we are not a memorial, and the salacious details provided in the article (and in the keep vote, above) are probably either coincidence or untrue. The FBI still has no statistical evidence of any murder ever being by a Satanic cult. Geogre 04:34, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Delete. She's not notable. I think a case could be made for a Lillelid murders article, though. There's been a documentary made about them.--R. S. Shaw 06:53, 2004 Nov 7 (UTC)

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