[WikiEN-l] "Suicide methods" article

[Cascadia]

The article definately needs to be improved to be of good quality, but not 
what I would call a guide to suicide.

Besides, anyone with two neurons in their brain knows 1,000,000 different 
ways to end ones self. Having this article really isn't letting out any 
trade secrets.

-Cascadia

"Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)" 
<newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:c52819d30704161053v2b3a9943oa3589b71880670bc at mail.gmail.com...
> During discussion of the deletion review for [[Darvon cocktail]] today on
> WT:DRV, it was mentioned that En-WP has an article called [[Suicide
> methods]].  After reading this article in detail, I have spent the morning
> contemplating whether I consider it acceptable that Wikipedia is
> disseminating this article on the Internet.  I have concluded that I do
> not.  In many respects, this article could be used as a how-to guide by
> someone contemplating suicide and/or could lead such a person to infer 
> that
> suicide is a reasonable response to whatever may be bothering him or her.
> While some other portions of the article may be relatively common 
> knowledge
> or background information, I do not see how the article could be 
> maintained
> in an acceptable state without permanently protecting it.
>
> I was astonished to read that this article has been put up for AfD three
> times and has been closed as keep, once speedily, on each occasion,
> sometimes with indignation at the prospect of its deletion.  I do, 
> however,
> believe that our sensitivity to our obligations as one of the ten leading
> websites in the world has increased in recent months.
>
> I consider myself a rather conventional and non-rouge type of editor and
> administrator but it is requiring a supreme effort of willpower not to
> perform an immediate IAR speedy deletion of this article on the ground 
> that
> it represents an imminent threat to human life and safety whose
> existence tends to place the project in disrepute.  I have no desire to
> create drama, but I am gravely troubled and would welcome comments from
> other Wikipedians.
>
> Newyorkbrad
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
>