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I agree with LGA, an attack that killed only two people in a city of over 500,000 as the worst "mass shooting" in the city history is rather dubious. My condolences to the families of the victims of the attack aside, that sounds like an extraordinary claim that went though lazy or overly sympathetic
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I just changed my vote to "delete" in another similar article, however this particular case was described as "the worst mass shooting in Portland's history". I must admit that I am generally an "inclusionist" and do not see any harm from keeping articles like
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As an admin, you should know that sources do not, in and of themselves, grant notability. Could you elaborate on your reasoning? FYI, you just copied and pasted the same thing on two other AfDs.
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this claim ? has the claim been repeated ? If there is a good secondary source to that claim then it would add weight to it being significant but not as it stands.
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That is press coverage that happened within a few days of what happened, press coverage disappears after that, which is a rather open and shut case of
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Indeed, simple Google search shows that such kind of murder-suicide is pretty common in Portland (changed vote).
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guideline for a standalone article. The only thing that gave me pause on this was the clam that this was "
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and pretty much pay attention to local history. This tragic incident totally escaped my memory. It is
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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per NOTNEWS. I live just down the road from Portland, subscribe to and read the Portland
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Like others, there is nothing in the article to suggest that this event was a "
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no evidence of everlasting significance since the shooting, fails
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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precedent or catalyst for something else of lasting significance
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a seminal event of Oregon history in the same way that the
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killing was a seminal event, just by way of example.
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