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The result was keep. I note that the article Hangthong Thammawattana does not currently exist, and will start a procedural WP:RM to possibly re-target the article about the person (who clearly meets WP:NPOL). (non-admin closure) power~enwiki (π, ν) 02:45, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Death of Hangthong Thammawattana[edit]

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PROD contested by article creator, no reason given. No evidence of notability, WP:NOTNEWS. Giant Snowman 13:41, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Thailand-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:55, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep A very high profile case. The article already has Time Magazine as reference. Here are coverage from The Times of UK [1], The Star (Malaysia) [2], South China Morning Post (the news covered 2 cases, the second half of it is relevant) [3]. News pieces for forensic expert have 6-7 paragraphs about the case: Chicago Tribune [4], ABC (Australia) [5]. Many more references can be found from Thai news sources. --Lerdsuwa (talk) 11:40, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Lerdsuwa. Utterly unsurprisingly, a sitting politician's death by gunshot attracts media coverage well beyond WP:NOTNEWS, including the sources in the article at the time of the nomination which are both from years after the event. Furthermore, even if the death itself were to fail WP:ONEVENT, the individual himself is notable per WP:NPOL, so there is simply no way that deletion could be the appropriate way of dealing with this (rather than, say, merging it to a new article about the politician himself). 59.149.124.29 (talk) 05:39, 25 July 2018 (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.