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Priyanka Reddy rape and murder moved to draftspace

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Priyanka Reddy rape and murder (December 1)

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Dan arndt (talk) 09:50, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Priyanka Reddy gang rape and murder (December 6)

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Dan arndt (talk) 06:42, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Death of Anjali Singh moved to draftspace

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October 2023

A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject or any other entity. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing. Fram (talk) 13:24, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

@Fram The page was a report about a series of recent murders, and was not meant to threaten anyone. Alan Zheimer (talk) 13:37, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Please see WP:SUSPECT. Fram (talk) 13:39, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

@Fram It wasn't a biography of a living person; it was a report about a series of murders. Alan Zheimer (talk) 13:42, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

@Fram I'll rewrite the page without mentioning the names of the people arrested. Will that be fine? Alan Zheimer (talk) 13:45, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Even then, all you have is a WP:NOTNEWS event of a potential crime (we shouldn't even call it a murder without a conviction). Wikipedia is very conservative when it comes to reporting on such things. The current version of the page will have to be deleted in any case. Fram (talk) 13:51, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Please take a look at Koodathayi cyanide murders to which I also contributed. This is a recent news report on the case: https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2023/02/05/koodathayi-foresnsic-probe-cyanide-absent.html

How was my page different from this one? Alan Zheimer (talk) 14:26, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

If no one has been convicted of murder yet, it should not be called a murder. Murder of George Floyd was not called such until the conviction of those involved. 331dot (talk) 16:44, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I've renamed that article to put "killings" instead of "murders". 331dot (talk) 16:51, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

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