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The following essay is a set of notes for dealing with the creation of articles that concern criminal acts, particularly cases of murder, or deaths in suspicious circumstances.
It's a fact that many criminal cases – and in particular those involving suspicious deaths – that receive more than a couple of days worth of blanket news coverage often turn up on Wikipedia fairly soon afterwards, usually before the full story is known. A good proportion of these end up in the AFD process because they are frequently not of encyclopaedic content, or are regarded as not having enduring notability. This essay attempts to set out when it is appropriate to create such an article, and when not; and if followed should hopefully enable you to avoid losing your hard work because your article was deemed to be unsuitable.