Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2016 North American heat wave


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The result was delete. Yunshui 雲 水 07:04, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

2016 North American heat wave

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Apparently this was not a heat wave; summer is still a thing. Poorly sourced, non-notable event. — JFG talk 07:07, 6 July 2018 (UTC)


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 * Delete - This is why it is best to wait for quality sources on these news events. If they come, we have a quality article; if we do not, we do not waste time discussing the notability of summer weather. Win, win.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 05:24, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: a search revealed no meteorological records or human impact covered by multiple reliable sources. ~ KN2731 {t · c} 11:51, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete. In the age of climate change, it's very likely that almost every year will always be able to claim that some part of the world set new summer heat records at some point during the northern and/or southern summers — and it's certainly true that every summer always has a stretch of days that are hot enough that even if they're not quite record heat, are still hot enough somewhere that somebody deems it a "heat wave". But it takes much more than that to turn a hot summer into a noteworthy heat wave — namely, it takes significant effects referenced to reliable source coverage that supports the significance of the effects, and not just the ability to single-source the fact that somebody declared that a heat wave was happening. But this is referenced to just one routine weather report stating that a heat wave was on its way but had not yet hit at the time of the source's publication, which is not enough to make a "heat wave" notable in and of itself. Bearcat (talk) 18:32, 9 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete Hot weather is just hot news while it's hot. After that, it stops even being news. It was certainly never a plague, or presented as one. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:08, 10 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. Looks like just another WP:INDISCRIMINATE weather article with standard weather reporting. Nothing that really passes WP:GNG. As always, simply being reported about in news sources doesn't automatically make something notable. Kingofaces43 (talk) 15:14, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom GhostOfDanGurney (talk) 19:32, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
 *  Merge - Merge into List of heat waves. --Jax 0677 (talk) 21:34, 12 July 2018 (UTC)


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