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Wikipedia is full of bios of "not notable" people on Wikipedia.

I find some of editors comments on Wikipedia a bit inappropriate seeing the unfortunate girl is still warm in her grave.

Articles for deletion - Jill Meagher

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The Age Newspaper (AU) -Murder victim Meagher may be wiped from Wikipedia

Bios of "not notable" people survive because
1. many editors don't care and couldn't be bothered getting these articles deleted.
2. the article is keep alive by a small group of seasoned editors (occasionally the odd admin) usually connected in some way to that person, who know the Wikipedia "system" well enough to play the "system" to enable the article to survive.

From Australia here's typical example of the later.
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There's a general principle that anything that gets a lot of news coverage is notable. It doesn't mean that this poor ruddy woman is notable and deserves a biography, only that the circumstances surrounding her death and the reaction to it deserve an article. The attempt to dismiss it as "missing white woman syndrome" is bloody pathetic. That may be a factor in America, but scarcely in Australia.
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