Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 European cold wave


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The result was keep. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 15:00, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

2006 European cold wave

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WP:SYNTHESIS of anecdotal weather reports. No strong effects or WP:LASTING significance. Snow in Southern Europe happens occasionally. Nothing special in 2006. Wikipedia is not the Weather Channel. — JFG talk 09:19, 9 August 2018 (UTC)


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 * Keep International coverage of an out of the ordinary event. Agathoclea (talk) 12:29, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Winter happens every year, sometimes worse than other years. Sources are contemporaneous weather news that do not provide lasting impacts or notability. Reywas92Talk 18:56, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - Just upon fact checking the first source mentioned in the article, I ran into WP:SYNTHESIS. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:03, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 20:55, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment Unlike many/most of the articles nominated in this wave, this one isn't simply the Anglosphere Only Movement promoting itself. Snow in Lisbon is, by an order of magnitude, more notable than snow in London.  RobinCarmody (talk) 21:39, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - it does seem to have WP:LASTING, here are a few papers about it, and here's Munich Re's report listing it as the deadliest cold snap in the 1980-2011 period.  Daß &thinsp;  Wölf  00:52, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Changed to strong keep - looking at the Red Cross report, there were over 1,000 fatalities and over $1 billion in crop damage. I'd say this is at the very least a strong contender for the most damaging winter weather event in Europe in the last few decades.  Daß &thinsp;  Wölf  03:35, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kirbanzo (talk) 01:33, 17 August 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep per Dab Wolf. AmericanAir88 (talk) 14:55, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per Daß Wölf. James500 (talk) 16:04, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 08:53, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep: a major natural phenomenon with significant death toll and economic effects. Meets WP:LASTING. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:29, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete This article contains WP:ROUTINE winter weather coverage and fails WP:GNG because no sources exist demonstrating significant notability for this event. Wikipedia is not the Weather channel, so it is not a repository for every new temperature or snowfall record that some find interesting. There is also nothing significantly notable regarding this winter caused crop damage, which happens every year to some degree in Europe. Moving onto fatalities, while these deaths were tragic for these individuals and their loved ones, in 2011, on average over 150,000 humans died every day on Earth |[1]. Earths population was smaller in 2006 so it would have been slightly fewer then, but the point is clear. Huge numbers of people die every day, including from the elements, and there was nothing remarkable about the death toll in Europe's winter of 2006. Newshunter12 (talk) 13:48, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Per K.e.coffman. 208.54.87.254 (talk) 04:42, 1 September 2018 (UTC)


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