Talk:Evelyn Hernandez
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I have nominated this article for deletion because I do not believe that the subject is notable. The notability guideline explicitely states the following:
- 3. Memorials. Wikipedia is not the place to honor departed friends and relatives. Subjects of encyclopedia articles must be notable besides being fondly remembered.
Facts to support my assertion:
- This article appears to be a memorial, and does not offer a reason that this case is more significant than any of the other 93 murders committed in San Francisco or the 16,204 in the Unisted States that year. (see [1] and [2])
- The article provides an external link that suggests that this type of murder is not uncommon: Police say murder of pregnant women is not uncommon [3]
- The article also states that: Friends and family of Hernandez tried to get Hernandez's case featured on America's Most Wanted, but were rejected because no warrant had been issued for a suspect.
- Only two articles link this one: a dab page for the name Evelyn, and the List of Murdered People.
- Most of the references provided where originally published in a span of 3 days (April 21 - 23, 2002), one of those requires the article to be purchased in order to be readThe Globe & Mail April 22, 2003, and another is from a blog A debate on the media coverage.
Srice13 15:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- The Evelyn Hernandez case was reported by NPR (6:39 on the report), Court TV, NBC, MSNBC, ABC News, Philippine News, The Seattle Times, Univision, CBS and CNN. The Hernandez case was written about in Presumed Guilty: What the Jury Never Knew About Laci Peterson's Murder and Why Scott Peterson Should Not Be on Death Row. These are but a few of the reports. There are a few reasons why her case is of interest. One: Her case has many similarities to the Peterson case, leading some to believe Scott Peterson is innocent. Two: An argument can be made, by contrasting the cases, that Americans prefer a soap opera murder if it involves white people, but not if it includes immigrants. Kingturtle 02:12, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Sadly there is truth to what you say, but it goes deeper than that. If Laci and Scott weren't telegenic nobody would had heard of this. --Kevin Murray 04:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- The links provided in Kingturtle's arguement all place Hernandez in the context of Peterson. That is a good argument that the Peterson case is not notable either. There are many things covered by the media that are not encyclodic fodder. I am dropping my resistance to this article becuase it is realy not that important to me. I do think the Wiki community needs to refine the notion of notablility. This case is not notable because of Hernandez; it is notable as an example of race bias in the media (which was not the theme of the article when I proposed deletion).SRICE13 (TALK | EDITS) 03:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
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