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The result was KEEP. TigerShark (talk) 23:35, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Life Imprisonment without Parole (LWOP) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Unredeemable personal essay. I can't see what this adds to the Life Imprisonment article. Recommend Delete. Dchall1 (talk) 16:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Full of original research, POV, starts with an emotionally-laden anecdote, continues with uncalled for analysis like "Despite Schick's lack of thorough analysis". We don't need a POV fork. --Dhartung | Talk 16:41, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment It's possible some of this could be reformatted as History of life imprisonment or some such. --Dhartung | Talk 16:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• keep although the article does read like a personal essay, the history section contains great information that can be reformated to wiki standards. I also agree with User:Dhartung that it could also be renamed, although that would depend on the tone of the essay after the reformating (right now it is a little jumbled together, once it is reformated we can see what information we can glean from it).Coffeepusher (talk) 18:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article is not intended as a final word, as marked it is "under construction." Give other editors a chance to edit it.

I do think LWOP worthy of a separate article, especially now with the lethal injection case before the supremes. Think of it as a stub. Edit it. Change the lede. (I would like to know if any editor could confirm Sgt Schick was eventually released.) Eschoir (talk) 19:15, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep in some form; seems to me like a valid subject, although it does need some desperate content improving and wikification, whether that means mass deletion of unverifyable POV or article rename to better suit the topic. I think inclusion can certainly be warranted if better sourcing and referencing is added where appropriate plus suggestions above. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:25, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keepish, but the article just begs for a rewrite of sorts... --Ouro (blah blah) 16:57, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and rename History of life imprisonment. I've made a start on revising it. John Vandenberg (talk) 14:36, 7 February 2008 (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.