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is in fact cited "This article is from Knowledge licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Knowledge article "Wakefield Massacre"." The other link is dead at the time I'm writing this. It meets notability, it needs cleaned up, expanded, and inline citations and more
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piece referencing it in 2007. Notability is not temporary, but this hasn't left the public eye. And ... quite aside from anything else, I'm quite bewildered at the nom's assertion that a judge popping off about the media coverage on the case "pretty much shows" anything at all - let alone
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Even if there are no sources cited in the article, there are plenty out there that could be used, so this can't be a reason to delete it. Tagging it with refimprove would be enough. And that the incident is not notable simply isn't true. It
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I will rewrite the whole article, though it will take me at least a week before it's done. Until then, I'll simply add some links to a few newspaper articles, which hopefully will quell those complaining about the lack of
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I'm afraid I'm not one of the Wikipedians who increasingly equate "no inline sources" with "unsourced." As it happens, a simple Google News search for "Michael McDermott" + "Wakefield" returns a whopping 387 hits
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Unsourced article on a provably nn workplace shooting in Massachusetts in 2000. Google shows three hits for the title (one is this article), and the article has copvio taken from either
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Google hits for the search "Michael Mcdermott"+"Wakefield MA", the article has +/- 1000 hits per month, and the first link offered as proof of a copyright violation for the article
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Come to that, there are two hits in May of this year; the article Lord Gon links also cites this case as the worst case of workplace violence in Massachusetts history
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incumbent upon the article being improved. Most of those comments were made in response to the claim the event was a flash in the pan non-notable event. As
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irks me ... Please, if you are going to vote to "Keep" an unsourced article because there are sources out there, then it should be incombant on you to
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Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, Boston Globe, San Diego Union, Christian Science Monitor
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There is an article for every other shooting spree in existence, this one just needs to be written and referenced better.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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not three days. (This search, by the bye, took me all of thirty seconds.) The sources include the
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notability or the lack thereof - other than that the judge needed a better handle on his temper.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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It had actually been nominated less than 48 hours before your rant and keep or delete is
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the problem by actually adding some of those sources. Thank you... rant over.
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pretty much shows how non-notable it was at the time and place it happened.
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Which exhortation would have gone over better had you added any yourself.
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said, it would go over better if you'd bothered to add something.
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but more sources should be added; it seems they are available.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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