Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/January 2017 European cold wave (2nd nomination)


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The result was keep. Consensus is for the article to be retained. North America1000 07:27, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

January 2017 European cold wave
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WP:SYNTHESIS of ordinary weather reports. Winter is cold; who knew? Nice pictures, though. — JFG talk 09:35, 9 August 2018 (UTC)


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 * Keep International coverage of an out of the ordinary event. Agathoclea (talk) 12:28, 9 August 2018 (UTC)I
 * Keep. Substantial international coverage of major and extremely abnormal (i.e. much more than just "Winter is cold...") weather event causing large-scale disruption and multiple deaths.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:21, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete Winter happens every year, sometimes worse than other years, and broken weather records are quite frequent. Sources are contemporaneous weather news that do not provide lasting impacts or notability. Reywas92Talk 18:59, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - Not synthesis. Here's an Atmosphere article specifically discussing its extent.  Daß &thinsp;  Wölf  00:45, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * That's a useful academic analysis of the phenomenon, many thanks for finding it! Care to add some words to the article citing this? — JFG talk 08:15, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm not a climatologist but I might give it a try. There's already a fair bit about Greece in there.  Daß &thinsp;  Wölf  01:11, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 10:49, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Contains adequate sources and has great international coverage. AmericanAir88 (talk) 14:57, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep - Highly notable event documented by multiple sources. This event had extremely severe impacts on parts of Europe, particularly the high death toll and the near-depletion of coal reserves of a country.  Light and Dark2000  (talk) 16:47, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Satisfies GNG. James500 (talk) 16:28, 21 August 2018 (UTC)


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