Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2021 Facebook outage


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The result was WP:SNOW keep. Come back in a few weeks or months when everyone are more detached from it happening to see if people still think we should keep the article. Until then, the results are unlikely to change due to recency bias. KTC (talk) 14:59, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

2021 Facebook outage

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Surely at this point this is textbook WP:NOTNEWS: a little bit on the main Facebook article, sure, but I'm not sure this outage merits its own article. Kingoflettuce (talk) 13:59, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
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 * Speedy Keep It certainly doesn't merit a deletion discussion – see policies WP:ATD, WP:BITE, WP:NOTPAPER, WP:PRESERVE, &c. See also WP:BEFORE. Andrew🐉(talk) 14:14, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:RAPID and so we can wait for notability to emerge. wizzito &#124; say hello!  14:15, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Longest outage ever, huge impact on millions of users (also financially) Coldbolt (talk) 14:18, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep When BBC News has a dedicated piece to the event, that suggests notability. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  14:24, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep This is an outage that affected not only millions of users around the world, but Facebook itself, which lost over $7 billion in damages. Major news sources around the world covered the event, and its disturbance on users' abilities to communicate made it a trending topic on Twitter. Definitely keep. HandIsNotNookls (talk) 14:25, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. A small event in terms of time - a few hours - but a globally significant one: not just measured in terms of the amount of Reliable Sources talking about it, but also becuase it's arguably one of the greatest single-event disruptions to human communication in history. This is not adequately addressed in the article (yet) - and will probably take a week or so for opinion-articles to be published - but never before has a single issue caused such widespread disruption to the ability of people to communicate, as this. Wittylama 14:28, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Snow Keep per editor Wittylama. For an event that lasted less than a day, the global disruption was indeed unprecedented. Even as early as 7pm UTC yesterday, it had already generated enough coverage to pass WP:GNG many times over. FeydHuxtable (talk) 14:36, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep This single outage impacted millions of users across at least 4 services and has been termed unprecedented. It shouldn't just be swept under the rug. Urbanracer34 (talk) 14:42, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
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