Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of extreme weather events


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:11, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

List of extreme weather events

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The most commonly used definition of extreme weather is based on an event's climatological distribution. Extreme weather occurs only 5% or less of the time.[clarification needed][when?] Extreme events, by definition, are rare. That kinda explains it all, according to who, seems like pure WP:OR on what a "extreme weather event" is, if it includes most natural disasters like this article seems to be, this list is clearly unfocused and potentially endless Delete Secret account 04:31, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete "WP is not news." That's what any list of events is.  In this case there doesn't seem to be much logic as to what's included. Kitfoxxe (talk) 10:35, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:14, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:14, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 20:14, 30 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete per nominator. Not News. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 00:04, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep This is basically an historical list of extreme weather events, so it is not news. Can see no reason why a list of events such as these should not be on an encyclopedia. I think it needs a fair bit of work, but valid information for an article, and probably quite useful. Deathlibrarian (talk) 08:30, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It's not news, I agree on this, but this article is far from WP:USEFUL just because of the vagueness and POV of the term "extreme" and remaming the article to something like List of weather events makes the list obviously unmaintainable. Secret account 23:35, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete This is simply too broad a subject for a list.  Automatic Strikeout  ( T •  C ) 02:07, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment. One should create lists by individual types of disasters, such as List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks, List of named tropical cyclones, List of floods, Lists of earthquakes and so on. My very best wishes (talk) 03:36, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Agree with Strikeout and Secret. Also, My very best wishes' recommendation seems to be very plausible. — Ṟ  Ṉ™  03:51, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
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