Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earthquakes by magnitude


 * 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 delete. May be editorially redirected.  Sandstein  07:19, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Earthquakes by magnitude

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It's unclear what this is, and I'd say that it's just not necessary. It looks like it's going to reproduce, in part, what we already have in our lists (in the Compared to other years section). I can't be sure of this, but that's what it looks like. The user that posted this fails to communicate, so we'll likely never know, but some of their other other creations have been problematic. At one point, the editor requested deletion, only to change their mind half an hour later. This article is not a good fit for WikiProject Earthquakes. Dawnseeker2000 21:07, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
 * delete - this would be a very interesting article if it provided some content. bare naked tables with no explanation offer little to a reader.  poorly sourced. DangerDogWest (talk) 05:15, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Struck content from confirmed sock above, per WP:SOCKSTRIKE. North America1000 02:55, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete and redirect to Lists of earthquakes which has this content. The redirect List of earthquakes by magnitude also exists to the same destination. StarryGrandma (talk) 05:58, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  19:48, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2015 October 31.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 20:08, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep if someone is willing to finish the chart; or, if someone really wanted to push it, Merge to Lists of earthquakes or List of 21st-century earthquakes. I don't see the duplicate content in Lists of earthquakes that StarryGrandma implied.  The information seems encyclopedic, and it's not really a "list of earthquakes", but more like a list of magnitudes with the event counts for each year.  The main problems I see with this page are: (1) it's incomplete; (2) the tables need to be flipped so that the magnitudes are on top and years on the side, or the table is going to become very wide as the years go on; and (3) the numbers have periods instead of commas for thousands separators. --Closeapple (talk) 23:14, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment on my above vote: Dawnseeker2000 pointed out that some earthquake year articles do have this kind of chart, for integer magnitude ranges and the appropriate decade. They don't have them broken down by tenths; but then, neither does most of this page under discussion, since the tables are blank right now. --Closeapple (talk) 23:22, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is an WP:Encyclopedia and should be a summary of published work. Data like this can go in Wikidata, but for it to be in Wikipedia, it needs to cite sources which also present tables like this and this article needs to have a narrative. This is out of scope of Wikipedia.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  18:18, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


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