Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2005 Atlantic Power Outage


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The result was keep. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 05:59, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

2005 Atlantic Power Outage
Not notable event, with very little information. Linnwood 01:17, 3 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Weak delete At first I thought this article was about the Northeast Blackout of 2003, which was a clearly notable event. This apparently is about a blackout centered in the U.S. South.  I'm having trouble verifying most of the information, including the duration of the blackout, whether it was one event or scattered events, and the bit about fatalities.  I have doubts about its notability.  --Hyperbole 01:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - A major weather event that resulted in loss of power and life. I cleaned up the article, removed what could not be cited, and found some additional sources. -Harmil 02:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep A power outage that affects hundreds of thousands of people is likely notable enough.-- Hús  ö  nd  03:04, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Widespread breakdowns of modern infrastructure are, in a legitimate sense, disasters, and deserve coverage.  Notability is not an issue, verifiability was, but Harmil has done an excellent job at refactoring this article into an appropriate stub with the potential for future expansion as sources permit. Serpent&#39;s Choice 03:25, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It is not up to Wikipedia editors to determine what deserves coverage. We don't need to.  Notability is the issue, and something is demonstrably notable if it has been noted.  It is newspaper journalists and editors, and historians, that determine whether events "deserve coverage".  They decide what is notable.  If journalists, historians, and whatnot that are independent of an event publish multiple non-trivial works about that event, then per the primary notability criterion it is notable. Uncle G 14:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Much improved, more sources. But there are probably more out there - actually, I know there are. Crystallina 03:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Mark for improvement including references. If it isn't improved in a few months, renominate.  *Sparkhead  11:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Freak weather condition, correctly stubbed as blackout. Merge if there is another article listing freak weather events. Khukri ( talk  .  contribs ) 12:06, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Very Weak Keep. I'd really like to see a few more User:Cool3/AfD good sources, but this appears just barely notable. Cool3 21:46, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Very Very Weak Keep due to issues about notability, very little news coverage. Ramsquire 00:14, 4 October 2006 (UTC)


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