“Local Story, Nothing More”: Deleting Gosnell

In what seems like a bizarre modern appropriation of the damnatio memoriae , Kermit Gosnell’s Wikipedia entry is being  considered for deletion . From the original deletion request :

His case has not received national attention. It is a local multiple-murder story in Pennsylvania, nothing more.

Nearly all respondents have reacted strongly against this, however, with one editor even saying “This very deletion request is a  WP:NPOV  violation.”