Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Death of Henry Lee Johnson

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The result was keep. Sandstein 07:15, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Death of Henry Lee Johnson

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I accepted this from Draft, but I am not sure of notability. We have many similar articles. Is this to be judged as "lack of continuing significance" vs. "part of the historical record". I could justify either position, but I would ideally hope for some consistency. DGG ( talk ) 07:35, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Crime, History, Africa, and Oklahoma. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 08:04, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep as Murder of Henry Lee Johnson. I think that racially aggravated murders, particularly ones where there was no conviction, are probably worth an article. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:14, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:36, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep It meets the five criteria of
WP:SUSTAINED but in the context of it being a notable murder, a notable race riot and then a notable trial, I take that into account. I find the "historical record" argument compelling, a child, killed for being black in an all white club, sparking a riot, my application of common sense to the GNG is the main influencing factor here. CT55555 (talk) 11:11, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply
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Keep this, this, and this amount to significant coverage. There are many more sources, wide-ranging in geography. This young man was killed in a hate crime, there was a large protest in which a police officer and another man were killed. I'd also add this Washington Post article, already in the article [1]. The article could certainly use some work (see deletion policy subsection
the general notability guideline. As far as more recent coverage, there is this from 1984 and ~~this from 2022~~, for starters.Jacona (talk) 13:12, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply
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