Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2005 Los Angeles power outage (second nomination)


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The result of the debate was Delete  (aeropagitica)    (talk)   19:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

2005 Los Angeles power outage
First nomination here, back in September 2005. With six months now past, I think it is time for a rethink. Remember the ten year test: will anyone remember this event in 9.5 years? Does anyone remember it today? It was a one and a half hour outage, totally unrelated to the (definitely notable) California electricity crisis; this was a human error, leading to a minor power outage. The fact that the article has to explicitly exclude Al-Qaeda is telling in itself. Put simply, this is an entirely non-notable power outage; and even then, power outages themselves are rarely notable.Batmanand | Talk 18:59, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak delete - it is really not very significant but I don't know how recognized it was in 2005. --Ton e  19:09, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete IMHO if this had happened (and it has) somewhere not in Soutern Cali or North Eastern US it would have been deleted right away. Very trivial. -- E ivindt@c 19:27, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I doubt people in the affected areas remember this, and I seriously doubt that the local TV news will be doing anniversary retrospectives, no matter how slow news is that day. --Calton | Talk 20:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. First AfD failed due to recentism of creator and nominator. -R. S. Shaw 23:59, 19 April 2006 (UTC)


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