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The result was keep. ✗ plicit 12:58, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Murder of Tay Chow Lyang and Tony Tan Poh Chuan
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A double murder of questionable notability. WP:NOTNEWS Kingoflettuce ( talk) 12:48, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 13:48, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Singapore-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 13:48, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- Keep I want to highlight that at the time, there is mass coverage of the trial and its aftermath, and there are books written about it, as well as the trauma of the families, with due respect to them. there may be the problem of not enough sources. Besides, we need to think of the possibility that the real murderer will be caught one day, which might allow some degree of impact and coverage. NelsonLee20042020 ( talk) 00:25, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
- From a related AfD: "Wikipedia is not a compendium of true crime stories or accounts of isolated awful events covered by newspapers as part of their daily business." I also hope the "real murderer" gets caught some day, but that is largely irrelevant to this discussion. Kingoflettuce ( talk) 12:46, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
- Keep From the start to the end, the case had significant coverage in two countries, Australia and Singapore, even if it was by virtue of the locality of the event and the nationality of the people involved. That should qualify for general notability guidelines. Side note: the possibility of real murderer being caught, see WP:CRYSTAL, so let's not consider that as a valid reasoning. – robertsky ( talk) 02:47, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- It's not unusual for a violent crime to have detailed coverage in the media from start till end. NOTNEWS & LASTING are much more pertinent here. Kingoflettuce ( talk) 12:41, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Grahame ( talk) 06:01, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Notability issues aside, there may be BLP violations in this article considering that the accused was acquitted of murder. Kingoflettuce ( talk) 12:34, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- King of lettuce, we can rewrite it in such a way that it is about the case instead of blp, and like that no violation will happen. NelsonLee20042020 ( talk) 16:24, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- Keep Yes it needs a bit of tone fix and BLP review, but there is sufficiently sustained coverage and also multinational coverage to support GNG. Aoziwe ( talk) 04:31, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
- Keep. Very obviously notable. Passes WP:GNG. -- Necrothesp ( talk) 12:30, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
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