Wiki How:Articles for deletion/List of self-inculpators

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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 11:10, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of self-inculpators

List with four entries. Criteria for inclusion are impossibly broad:

"prominent individuals who have inadvertently inculpated themselves by producing, and failing to adequately conceal or to destroy, written or otherwise-recorded evidence that has subsequently implicated them in faults or crimes."

This is a very big category of people; almost anyone (prominent) who fails to cover their own tracks in a crime or misdeed can fall in here. The broader the criteria are, the less interesting the list is. Hairhorn (talk) 19:47, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or massively increase in size, to be sure. As a stand-alone article, at this point it fails. Collect (talk) 22:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, refine the criteria as appropriate, and add more examples. Nihil novi (talk) 04:47, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - criteria for inclusion is so impossibly broad that the list can never serve any use - we may as well have "list of people hit by cars" "list of people shot in the head" and all. What ties them together? Nothing in time, geography or relevancy except that they failed to destroy incriminating evidence. most criminals are caught for failing to destroy incriminating evidence. Ironholds (talk) 10:01, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the examples even indicate the complete lack of coherence. One probable case of treason disputed for centuries, 2 adulteries, and an historic & undisputed impeachment. Add to which everyone who has ever produced anything that might be considered evidence showing them possibly guilty of a legal or social offense. I suppose half the divorce cases throughout history come in this group. This is what is meant by indiscriminate. DGG (talk) 04:37, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, Wikipedia at its worst. Pavel Vozenilek (talk) 22:37, 6 August 2009 (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.