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Murder of Olive Duck

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Fails WP:NEVENT. All source is breaking news or trial stuff, no retrospection, once the trial was over it was seemingly never discussed again. Interestingly, not a case of recentism (all sourcing is from 1925) PARAKANYAA (talk) 14:57, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Crime and Australia. PARAKANYAA (talk) 14:57, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 15:41, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I'm not sure I understand what you are expecting for this article. This murder happened a century ago. Her father was convicted of her murder. Are you looking for an Aftermath section at the bottom? Can you link a similar article that is written the way you think this should be? — Maile (talk) 21:21, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Maile66 I am expecting it to not exist. Not every news item should get a page, and this does not meet NEVENT or GNG (all sourcing is WP:PRIMARYNEWS). PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:29, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Appears to be a routine event, even if it was 100 yrs ago. Guy does bad thing, goes to trial, gets jailed. Like the other two murders discussed in the final paragraph, it got media attention, so was sensationalized. Nothing notable about the media hyping up a story to sell papers. Oaktree b (talk) 22:08, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:EVENT. We don't create articles for every murder. LibStar (talk) 22:54, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A search on Trove reveals lots of local coverage from 1925 but nothing after that and nothing with any real depth. Seems to fail WP:NEVENT. For it to be notable, I would expect to see some kind of WP:LASTING coverage published more than a couple of months after the murder, and some coverage that goes beyond the routine details of the trial. For instance, the Gun Alley Murder is a somewhat similar Australian murder case from the same period, and its sources very clearly demonstrate its notability by comparison. MCE89 (talk) 02:14, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]