Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Shawn Hornbeck
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- Keep - In agreement with others. Since everything I was thinking has already been said, I feel I shouldn't say anything other than to keep this article as well as the one about Ben Ownby. However, the Ownby article should really be cleaned up. Fanficgurl January 13 2007 (UTC)
Keep - I feel that the pages for Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby should definitely be kept. This case is huge and I feel we have only begun to unravel everything that has happened to Shawn in the past years. Cases such as this are important for society to remember and learn from. We might never know exactly what happened, but this case is truly unbelievable. harpbrat 1/14/07
Strong Delete - Acknowledged he is in the public eye, but this is not encyclopedic. Unfortunately, kidnapping occurs all over the world, and it just so happened that this one boy landed in the public eye simply because of the length of his captor's hold on him. Please get rid of this article; this kid already has his name in the press- and if it's exposed that he's been molested or raped- it simply is not right to throw his name on some wiki article for the whole world to see. You want encyclopedic? Write about the trial of Michael Devlin, just don't exacerbate the emotional state of this boy! Consider this, in a few years after this has all blown over- people will hopefully remember the perpetrator, not the victimized, and wikipedia should not be used as a proxy to expose victimized youth to the whole of society. --71.194.128.49 08:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
