Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2015 South Coast blackout


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The result was keep. Tone 09:11, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

2015 South Coast blackout

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Minor event about which little is or can be written. Fails WP:EVENT and WP:NOTNEWS. Suggest merging into List of power outages and deleting the page. IceBred (talk) 18:29, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:59, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:59, 28 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Redirect – I disagree in that the event was "minor" as at the time it was the largest blackout in the history of BC Hyrdo in British Columbia. That said, I also suggest WP:USERFY if the article is deleted as I would like to preserve some of the information. Also, this article is far from the worst attached to Category:Electric power blackouts. I would like to see a review of some the articles listed there. AuroraIL (talk) 03:46, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jovanmilic97 (talk) 15:53, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Keep/move – I don't think the power outage is necessarily notable by itself, but the storm certainly is.

In British Columbia particularly, there have only really been three notable windstorm's in recent memory. They occured in 2006, 2015 (article in question), and 2018. The latter occurred a few weeks ago, causing major damage to local landmarks and the resulting power outage surpassed that of the 2015 blackout. Of course this is all subjective. It appears that if storms in the Pacific Northwest do not particularly affect the states of Washington and Oregon it is not as notable. I forgot about the 2016 storm as it is not particularly notable in British Columbia. My point is that I think that there is potential for this article to be expanded. There's only just little to expand on in its current form as it is focused primarily on the blackout and not the storm that occurred in August 2015.


 * as the editor who originally created the article. Northwest (talk) 00:52, 6 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. As someone who lived and worked without electricity for two weeks after the Great Storm of 1987 in southern England this looks trivial.Charles (talk) 09:34, 6 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Commemt – Interesting, thanks for the read. Although, I would think with the population density of that region it should have been worst than the Columbus Day Storm of 1962. But it occured over 25 years later. It's as if responses to storms have improved in some capacity. I feel it is safe to say that had that storm occured in the 2010's you most likely would not have gone without electricity for that amount of time. Northwest (talk) 11:29, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I suspect it would take just as long now because of the huge number of trees and powerlines brought down.Charles (talk) 20:38, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 17:26, 11 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep. Good for historical and reference purposes for the area involved.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgbo120 (talk • contribs) 19:15, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a reliable source for reference.Charles (talk) 21:36, 13 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep-useful--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 03:21, 19 January 2019 (UTC)


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