Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2004 LaSalle County, Illinois earthquake


 * 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   delete. Per WP:NOTNEWS. Jayjg (talk) 02:50, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

2004 LaSalle County, Illinois earthquake

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Nomination by an IP user who can't create AFD pages. Completing the process, I have no comments on the nomination. Woogee (talk) 21:15, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * There was no one killed or even hurt, a small earthquake with no coverage outside America, just a news report of one day with no historic meaning and appears to violate the rule WP:NOT.

S Martin (talk) 08:17, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions.  -- ( X!  ·  talk )  · @959  · 22:00, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's even no mention of any damage. 4.2 MMS - there are probably thousands of earthquakes of this magnitude each year. Would make sense as a list entry at best. GregorB (talk) 01:30, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep For some regions a 4.2 is a non-event. For others it is a big deal. If it can be sourced, it should be kept, I believe.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:49, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. This earthquake was only a small, localized event not worth mentioning on an international web site such as Wikipedia. The earthquake did not produce any notable damage or casualties.  I've noticed that articles on stronger earthquakes that caused damage or even a few casualties have been deleted.  As to the argument that this quake is a big deal for those who experienced it, I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas, which experienced a 3.2 earthquake last year, which I personally felt.  Although that quake is a big deal around here, since this is a seismically quiet area, I know it is a non-event everywhere else; thus that quake is not worthy of having a Wikipedia article.  I favor the administrators deleting this article.
 * Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. Armbrust  Talk  Contribs  14:48, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Made in 2005, when Wikipedia would take just about anything. The unsourced statement "yet thousands of people were startled and awoken in the middle of the night" pretty well sums up everything wrong with this article.  According to Richter magnitude scale, there are over 6,000 tremors each year in the range of 4.0 to 4.9.  This might have rattled the windows.  As for people in bed, it's possible that at least one person in LaSalle County said "Do that again, Stanley!" Mandsford (talk) 16:28, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTNEWS.-- DA I (Δ) 22:29, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, for some reason, the IP who nominated this for afd also nominated 2010 Illinois earthquake. These events are notable due to the rarity of the events, and the fact that they are much further north than the usual area for earthquakes in Illinois, which usually center around the New Madrid Fault. Also, the fact that these earthquakes are within the Chicago metropolitan area, which would affect 10 million people. Some of us actually like to read articles about earthquakes, and would appreciate a greater emphasis on the value of scientific articles in Wikipedia. --Funandtrvl (talk) 05:06, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, this earthquake was notable due to the fact that it was felt in a total of 6 different states, thus, it was not just a small localized event as someone erroneously mentioned above. In addition, it occurred within 10-20 miles of the LaSalle and Dresden Nuclear Power Plants, and had any severe damage occurred to those plants, it would have been catastropic.
 * Keep Update, I've added 4+ more references to the article, including the USA Today story about the earthquake stating that it was a rare event for this area, and another source that stated that it was the first earthquake in that county in 123 years, almost to the day. --Funandtrvl (talk) 22:19, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. WP:NOTNEWS applies. USA Today includes a lot of non-notable stuff from verious states so that people traveling know what happened back home. WP:RECENTISM might apply here. Niteshift36 (talk) 02:18, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, it was not only in USA Today, but also written up at the USGS and the Indiana University PEPP program (Princeton Earth Physics Project) too. I'm planning to add that reference also, as soon as I have some time. I still don't understand why a seismological event that rarely happens in Northern Illinois, so close to Chicago, the 3rd largest U.S. population center, would not be notable. Wikipedia could certainly use more Earthquake articles, as the WikiProject Earthquakes has only tagged 796 articles. Deleting the four articles that the anonymous IP user nominated on Feb. 27th would not help the project at all. It would be nice to have some editors actually help to contribute to the earthquake articles, instead of just demanding that they be deleted, not to mention that scientific articles on earthquakes actually belong in an encyclopedia. --Funandtrvl (talk) 03:19, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete a minor quake of little to no significance. --Bejnar (talk) 18:08, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, I still don't understand why everyone wants to delete the earthquake articles, but to keep 109,000+ association football articles, that seems to be okay. I can see everyone's priorities are sports, not science. --Funandtrvl (talk) 22:02, 6 March 2010 (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.