Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/November 2009 Washington Metro train collision


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The result was   merge to Incidents on the Washington Metro. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

November 2009 Washington Metro train collision

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Collision lacks notability; no fatalities or major injuries, no follow-up on investigation SNaismith (talk) 02:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep. Notability has been demonstrated through multiple reliable sources.  As for investigation follow-up, NTSB investigations do take time, and as of today, a report has not yet been released.  It is not uncommon for NTSB investigations to take a year and a half or more to complete.  Once a report is released, there will be follow-up.  So far, the NTSB has only released four photos related to this collision.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:46, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Two Washington Post snippets don't provide notability in my mind. There have been multiple far more serious Metro train collisions that do not have their own Wikipedia articles - why does this incident deserve its own?  I'm also confused as to why, with June 2009 Washington Metro train collision these articles are two of only six entries included in Category:2009 disasters in the United States.  The Nov 2009 incident is not remotely notable on a national scale, and was simply an accident - FAR from a DISASTER. SNaismith  —Preceding undated comment added 04:37, 20 January 2011 (UTC).


 * Delete or redirect/merge to Incidents on the Washington Metro. Some accidents, such as June 2009 Washington Metro train collision, are historical events, and the difference between news and notable is the amount of coverage that happens later.  Even after the NTSB report is released, it's likely that this is still going to WP:NOTNEWS rather than WP:EVENT.  Mandsford 02:58, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 03:17, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Incidents on the Washington Metro, which currently has no content on this event. Since the only sources are fairly limited in scope and geographical area and stopped covering this a month after it happened, it would appear to fail WP:EVENT. No need to lose the content though, especially when an obvious merge target exists. Alzarian16 (talk) 18:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Incidents on the Washington Metro. Two out-of-service trains having a significant fender-bender in the yard is notable as part of a list of incidents, but not as a stand-alone article. - The Bushranger One ping only 21:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Incidents on the Washington Metro, information can easily be mentioned there.  Dough 48  72  22:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to the incidents article as suggested above. If something were to actually come out of this, then no prejudice to spinning it back off again, but right now, without any substantial coverage beyond basic news reports of the collision itself, this seems to fail WP:EVENT. -- Kinu t /c  21:07, 26 January 2011 (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.