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 Delete--JForget 00:43, 2 November 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Matt Pearce[edit]

This article seems to be about someone who was temporarily newsworthy, but does not have the level of importance and notability for an encyclopedia article. I'm also concerned that this article may exist primarily to disparage the subject - it is certainly slanted against him. Deli nk 14:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Delete, NN criminal charges, WP:NOT#NEWS, WP:BLP1E concerns. --Dhartung | Talk 15:02, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Delete, per all of above. --Endless Dan 16:13, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Delete per others. Doctorfluffy 17:49, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Delete did a minorly dumb thing in public, got arrested. Barely newsworthy, certainly not encyclopedic. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:34, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Delete Clear violation of BLP--relatively minor crime, the subject is not noteworthy otherwise, and the name of his victim is unnecessarily present in the article. DGG (talk) 22:10, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Delete for above reasons and as a copyvio of this article FlowerpotmaN·(t) 22:15, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Delete nn despite BBC etc. coverage--just a single albeit amusing arrest. JJL 23:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This article is not 'slanted against him' - it is lifted from a newspaper article reporting the said events. (Will add the reference later, but it can be googled). How can this article be 'an amusing arrest'? The subject was gaoled for 12 months for 'criminal intimidation'. It was also not a 'minor dumb thing' it was a 'sustained, deliberate act of vicious intimidation' (Magistrates words). It is not up to users on Wikipedia to make judgements like 'minor dumb crime' over acts of stalking and intimidation. People are not sentenced to gaol for 36 months for 'minor dumb crimes'. This article should be available for the general public to see, it IS newsworthy, and it is helpful to a range of people in society to be able to access this information. Please don't trivialise this matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HKqwert (talk • contribs) 09:13, 30 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[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.