Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Control of the National Grid (Great Britain)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to National_Grid_(Great_Britain). Consensus is for a selective and limited merge, dropping any original research and unsourced material. Of course, leave a redirect behind -- RoySmith (talk) 14:42, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Control of the National Grid (Great Britain)

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This is essentially an operating guide and a collection of information that explains how the National Grid (Great Britain) is run and random statistics; there is no indication why this subject merits an encyclopedic article. There is already a section on the National Grid article that adequately summarizes its operation. Article has been tagged as Original Research since 2008. —Мандичка YO 😜 07:45, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

This article should not be deleted, since there is no clear explanation anywhere else of how the grid is controlled in particular its use of the automatic disconnection of loads and the start up of small generators.
 * Keep This article was split off from the main article back in 2006 and those at Talk:Control of the National Grid (Great Britain) seem to have welcomed it. This seems to me be be a topic thoroughly worth covering in a broad encyclopedia and, indeed, it meets our normal criteria for notability. I dare say the article does contain some original research but I expect its main failing is that many claims are unreferenced. Thincat (talk) 15:57, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * FYI the user who wrote most of the enthusiastic content on the talk page is the one who wrote the article (and posted a comment above without signing it). I don't see any need or precedence for a "how this works" article. Even the most notable subjects don't have a corresponding article covering its day-to-day operations and statistics. That info goes in the article itself if it's notable, or probably can be found in a general article about the concept eg Electric power transmission. The largest nuclear reactor in the world, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, has no twin article "Control of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant." It's just redundant. The article has been tagged as original research for seven years. Almost every single section was tagged as unreferenced a year ago. If you take out what appears to be original research, there's no conceivable reason it can't be covered here: National Grid (Great Britain).  —Мандичка YO 😜 19:45, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. North America1000 02:02, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. North America1000 02:02, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Merge to National_Grid_%28Great_Britain%29. Most of this reads like original research, and few of the references are directly about control of the grid. The few statements about control can be merged into the general article. LaMona (talk) 23:29, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Davewild (talk) 17:40, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge to National_Grid_%28Great_Britain%29. Subject does not appear to require or benefit from a split. Much of the material in Control of the National Grid (Great Britain) should not survive the merge. ~Kvng (talk) 14:52, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Esquivalience t 01:33, 26 May 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.