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 no consensus defaulting to Keep and w/o prejudice to a future renomination. In particular I note that the article has recently undergone substantial revision which was not effectively addressed by many of those who posted early !votes favoring deletion. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:42, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wilbur Ernesto Martinez-Guzman[edit]

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Individual is known only for one event. Per WP:BLPCRIME: "For relatively unknown people, editors must seriously consider not including material—in any article—that suggests the person has committed, or is accused of having committed, a crime, unless a conviction has been secured." –dlthewave 17:48, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nevada-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 17:51, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 17:52, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of El Salvador-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 17:52, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 17:52, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is inaccurate. As per their statement here, they are arguing (quite reasonably) that this page is a WP:G10 speedy deletion candidate. As per speedy deletion criteria they blanked the page except for the speedy deletion template. This isn't disruption, it's the correct way of handling a WP:G10 page. Simonm223 (talk) 14:35, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is a regular AfD, and everyone except one editor is treating it as such. This article should go through the same process as other AfDed articles. --1990'sguy (talk) 14:45, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The presence of an AfD discussion does not preclude an editor putting an article forward for speedy deletion.Simonm223 (talk) 14:55, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Either let the Afd run to a conclusion or start with a Speedy deletion tag. Both at the same time, and enforced by the editor initating this AfD is disruptive, at best.BabbaQ (talk) 14:58, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wait, who is claiming OSE, I don't see it. I see plenty of good rationales for Keeping the article. BabbaQ (talk) 14:19, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • User Simonm223 has just BLANKED the page [3]. This is the 4th time this page has been blanked in the last couple of hours, by Simon223, by MShabazz, and by the Nom of this page who replaced the blanking when it had been reverted (by me, unaware that page creator cannot remove such a template.)E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:09, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

information Administrator note I've just noted it in the page history, but consider that G10 tag declined on my part. I don't think we need to get into whether it should or shouldn't be tagged while at AfD, and I don't think there's any value in discussing anyone's behavior in that process, so hopefully we can just continue with the AfD as usual. ~ Amory (utc) 15:29, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment Effectively what this statement is saying is that the users who have been creating crime articles have been acting without regard for WP:BLPCRIME for long enough that they no longer consider it, and WP:LIBEL to be worth considering. Not when there's juicy newsmedia hay to make. This is unencyclopedic and harmful to Wikipedia as a project. It's also deeply WP:DISRUPTive that they continue creating these and forcing reasonable editors to police a constantly shifting terrain of WP:BLPCRIME violating hit-pieces. Simonm223 (talk) 17:12, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's quite common for editors within a certain topic area to develop their own common practices and, sometimes, bad habits. Central forums such as AfD play an important role in applying our community standards regardless of what the common practice may be. In this case the relevant policies and guidelines advise discretion and caution in publishing information about suspects, and the BLPCRIME policy takes priority over guidelines such as WP:PERPETRATOR (even calling them a perpetrator is problematic in many cases). Per WP:BLPCRIME: "For relatively unknown people, editors must seriously consider not including material—in any article—that suggests the person has committed, or is accused of having committed, a crime, unless a conviction has been secured. A living person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until convicted by a court of law. Accusations, investigations and arrests do not amount to a conviction." In this case, although they have received media coverage, we are still dealing with Wikipedia's definition of a low-profile person. –dlthewave 17:37, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • We should handle this case as per the COMMON editing practice of editors writing about crimes committed in Common Law countries.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:52, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I strongly disagree. We handle these cases according to our policies and guidelines, regardless of what editors in that topic area happen to be doing. –dlthewave 17:56, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I dont really see why you keep capitalizing COMMON as though that means something. Because our policies are actually what document our common practices and standards of editing, and WP:BLP is a policy. That editors routinely violate that policy to the point where one of them claims it is a common practice means something very different from we should stop enforcing the policy. It means that WP:NEWBLPBAN needs to start being used to enforce that policy. nableezy - 21:02, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ultimately the United States being a country rooted in the common law system is so entirely irrelevant that E.M.Gregory's repeated references to it, up to and including what appears to be an attempt to try and present it as if it had something to do wit WP:COMMON just strikes of more WP:TEND civil POV pushing. I hope, if any admins choose to take action with regard to this situation that this is taken into consideration. Simonm223 (talk) 13:06, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This is this users second !vote in this AfC - I hope a strike-through of one or the other is forthcoming shortly. I also find the requests to move the content to be deeply tendentious all things considered. It's WP:DISRUPTive to require editors to play whack-a-mole in order to ensure WP:LIBEL violating material stays off the site with multiple rapid related page creations. This also seems like an attempt to circumvent WP:AfD. Simonm223 (talk) 15:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Libel" is a well-defined legal concept, but it does not apply to individuals whose actions have made them well-known public figures, a concept that has been routinely applied in Anglo American law for centuries with regard to individuals who commit well-publicized crimes. While I understand that you WP:JUSTDONTLIKEIT, it is important to respect settled fact of law. It is a fact that writing an article about a criminal whose name has been splashed across pages nationwide - whether writing in a blog, in an newspaper, or in Wikipedia, is NOT libelous.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:41, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment First, this is not an improved article - just a weak attempt to keep the WP:LIBEL violating content up by re-framing the article. Second, you still have not struck through either !vote. Simonm223 (talk) 15:37, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • An absurd, possibly libelous, reading of my editing record.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:58, 28 February 2019 (UTC). While I am using "libelous" as hyperbole, I ask User:NickCT to return and strike his comment.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:13, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Have you looked at your own edit history? Well over half of it is dedicated to pages somehow related to immigrants who have committed crime. The rest seems to be concentrated on notable Israelis or wierd far-left terrorists. This is not the edit history of a healthy mind. NickCT (talk) 14:11, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • TAKE a deep breath, Nick. Then please walk that back. It is not at all accurate. E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:16, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is accurate. You want to go line-by-line through your history? Look.... I'm not trying to be a hater, but my suggestion to you is that you take a self-imposed wikibreak from immigrant crime articles. Write about sports, or flowers, or cats, or any number of other things that make this world a beautiful place. You'll find that if you focus on the good stuff, you won't want to hate so much. NickCT (talk) 17:47, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • fixed. although "keep and move" is a COMMON iVote, and the first comment was annotated "(revised iVote, see below)". E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:07, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • My concern was not that you changed your !vote to "keep and move" it was that you were maintaining two separate lines that were presented as !votes. Furthermore, your conduct here remains deeply WP:TEND and I sincerely hope that whoever closes this mess at least gives you a formal warning for your comportment. Simonm223 (talk) 19:13, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • User:Reywas92 It is important to look both at page and at discussion BEFORE commenting. You objection has been responded with a PROPOSAL to change the title to 2019 Nevada killing spree in conformity with a WP:HEYMANN rewrite of the article to be about the crime, NOT about the suspect. Coverage, moreover, has been far from routine.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:05, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • It would behoove you to stop assuming your post-hoc justification for how you intend to frame your WP:COATRACK was a legitimate application of WP:HEYMAN Simonm223 (talk) 15:12, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is worth mentioning that the suspect has confessed.XavierItzm (talk) 17:11, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would be happy to rename it immediately. But, can that be done during an AfD? I got savaged for doing that that once. If it is permissible, I am happy to move this immediately to 2019 Nevada killing spree.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:08, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I think DGG's suggestion has merit, but I am too wimpy to implement it without further discussion. Consensus has yet to develop in any sense.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 21:43, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It appears the article was created because the suspected perp may be an illegal immigrant and for no other reason. There exist an enormous number of crimes that are not DUE. The BLP issues still exist. O3000 (talk) 21:21, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, and we should keep in mind that this is one of a group of articles about crimes that may have been committed by illegal immigrants by an editor who has now been Topic Banned from articles like this. O3000 (talk) 21:40, 11 March 2019 (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.