Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saudi Arabian snowstorm 2016


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The result was keep. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 03:46, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Saudi Arabian snowstorm 2016

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This is a single event article, and in my opinion at best be merged with Climate of Saudi Arabia. I had PROD it earlier which was declined. ChunnuBhai (talk) 09:22, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep This is a notable extreme weather event, which we usually cover in standalone articles: 2013 Middle East cold snap, Mid-February 2015 North American blizzard, January 2017 European cold wave, etc. Merging into Climate of Saudi Arabia would be inappropriate (weather is not climate!) –&#8239;Joe (talk) 10:45, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep As per comments above. JamesG5 (talk) 02:01, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:41, 11 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep Not sure whether I'm supposed to be here, given that I've edited it, but here goes. This article has potential. I've just expanded it some, and it could probably be expanded even further. I'm going to stop now, as I'm not much good at major edits. As Joe Roe said above, this is interesting (and unusual) enough that it's notable and deserves its own article. Tamwin (talk) 02:06, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep, as above sources show WP:GNG is passed. Also, move to 2016 Saudi Arabian snowstorm per naming conventions evident at Category:2016 meteorology.  " Pepper "  @ 05:32, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Article has been moved to 2016 Saudi Arabian snowstorm. - GB fan 17:57, 12 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Weak keep and broaden focus. I've been expanding the article using sources helpfully provided by above and by  on the article talk page, and have made a search myself for others, and I notice two things: one, there's a preponderance of tabloids, with several accounts relying on The Sun, which is a really unreliable source, or drawing heavily on Twitter and Facebook; and two, several articles eventually mention previous snowfalls in Saudi Arabia—I already have 2013, 2015, and January 2016 in our article—and the Telegraph reference is a photo essay talking depicting snow throughout the Middle East, published in late December. So it's unusual but far from unique, and the article should probably become one on snow in the Middle East. There are presumably climate studies out there that talk generally about the frequency and whether it's increasing. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:05, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep, and, as suggested, perhaps expand into something like Snow in Florida. I can see this odd article making it to the main page on 1 April 2017. Did you know that an Islamic cleric issued a fatwa against the building of snow men in Saudi Arabia? Bearian (talk) 16:48, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep coverage clearly allows the article to pass WP:GEOSCOPE. O Fortuna!  ...Imperatrix mundi.  16:59, 13 January 2017 (UTC)


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