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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Speedy Keep per WP:SNOW. The consensus is that the deletion rationale is not based in policy and that prior consensus (clearly evidenced in earlier AfDs) has not changed. SHEFFIELDSTEEL 18:02, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Suicide methods

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I get the anti censorship and anti disclaimer arguments, but lives are at stake here. Some of you may not care about this, but depressed people can and do use Misplaced Pages to learn about methods on how to commit suicide, including a suicidal member in my immediate family. With what we have seen in the media about the copycat effect for people committing suicide, TIME magazine, we should either delete this article or put a disclaimer on this article alone per WP:IAR. This is not a typical censorship case and I urge Wikipedians to understand the practical effect of having this article without any sort of prominent help hotline at the top of this article. JustGettingItRight (talk) 02:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


  • Strong keep - This is the 6th nomination now and no actual new argument for deletion is presented. Anti-censorship and anti-disclaimer aren't simply "arguments" but wikipedia policy. You can't just use WP:IAR as a way to backdoor WP:JDLI. DSZ (talk) 04:34, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Keep Article has content problems with respect to its scope--it is more like a general list of ways to die. It's also possible that any encyclopedic discussion of such methods can be merged to suicide. However, these are editing issues and not deletion issues. Nominator's rationale seems to be based entirely on emotion, which despite his claims to the contrary, makes this a very typical censorship case, and on that issue I see no reason to defy established guidelines. Ham Pastrami (talk) 04:54, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
  • KEEP It is not a 'how-to' just an article listing the most common types of suicide, and is presented in a way that is neutral. To delete it simply because it covers a sensitive topic would simply be censorship. We must keep it as per WP:NOTCENSORED Trevor Marron (talk) 11:47, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Strong keep. I do not accept that "lives are at stake here" - i.e. remove this article or people will die - a few moments playing with Google shows that information on suicide methods is widely available on the Internet. Anyone feeling suicidal will simply look elsewhere. In any case the article is not a manual. Jll (talk) 13:28, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
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.

Random Citezen.. I cannot spell very well I am sorry. I am 15. My name is no matter, In your argument I read, I agree with both sides. I have myself attempted but never once wanted to look up ways on how to kill myself on line, that would be just a way to broadcast that and have people attempt to stop me. I did not want that. But if there was someone who was less sure about killing themselves and they were dubious of all the ways and they accidently pondered across this website, Ido not believe it is a "how-to" kill yoursel site. I believe that they are just stating just facts and things that have happened. I read part of the article and it has real stories, so it can possibly change your mind thinking and knowing how bad it really is. I do think you should put at the bottom or top of this article is the possible consequences to attempting suicides. The people who miss you and things that change. Or maybe in some cases people killing themselves for your loss. Thanks Bye!