Talk:Goldman child abduction case

Proposed deletion

Sorry, but this case has been dominating Brazilian news for a while now. It was handled by the countries supreme court and high level government officials were involved in diplomatic discussions with US officialls. There are hundreds of sources, the article needs to be expanded and sourced not deleted. 189.105.77.223 (talk) 21:32, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

I endorse the removal of the PROD. Because the prior article was deleted, it's not possible to compare this stub to it to see if they contain substantially the same content. However, the AfD referred to ended with deletion of Sean Goldman based on the policies WP:BLP1E and WP:NOT#NEWS and WP:NOT#SOAPBOX. Taking each of these in turn:

WP:BLP1E: This policy argues against an article on the boy himself, but not about the case. In fact, that policy calls for converting or merging such articles to articles about the event, such as this one.

WP:NOT#NEWS: This policy argues against articles that are "routine news reporting." This case, however, rose to being an international incident. Congress introduced H.R. 2702, legislation to suspend Brazil's Generalized System of Preferences trading benefits ([1]); the case was discussed on the House floor ([2]); and the U.S. Secretary of State treated it as a diplomatic issue of Brazil's obligations under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ([3]). This is not "routine news reporting."

WP:NOT#SOAPBOX: I don't know what the original article's content was that would trigger a soapbox issue, but it's certainly not present in the present article. TJRC (talk) 18:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

This article lacks a neutral point of view. There are other opinions regarding the merits of this case, the circumstances and the law. The case was notably motivated by religious differences between the families and it was always resolved through of the use of political extortion rather than on the merits of the case or the child's best interest. The article fails to adequately present these and other issues or to balance the point of view by presenting dissenting opinions or the other side of the case. --deBohun (talk) 02:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Changed title of page

Most of the discussion for the deletion of the orginal article Sean Goldman concentrated on the actual naming of the child as the article title. The article "Sean Goldman legal case" was created eventually as there was no objection to the discussion of the "legal case", just naming of a 9 year old kid that would harm him in some way. Feeling the sensitivity of the issue, I have redirected it to a more neutral article that specifically avoids using the boy's name in the title and just says "Goldman child custody case". I used child custody rather than a vague "legal case". I also added many new information and references and external links and the article is open for further development by contributors werldwayd (talk) 03:20, 9 January 2010 (UTC)