Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Somerset Nuclear Power Plant


 * 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   keep content. Looks like we agree to keep the content, any other decision is beyond the scope of this afd. Flowerparty ☀ 02:03, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Somerset Nuclear Power Plant

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Not notable - a proposed nuclear power plant that was canceled a year later in 1975. I can find no reliable sources to say this is notable - google gives 0 results for "Somerset Nuclear Power Plant". Author declined PROD claiming that fact it was a proposed major project automatically makes it notable. I disagree - if it was controversial or significant in some way then maybe yes, but I find no sources to suggest this. Pontificalibus (talk) 19:54, 7 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Google: no results found for "Somerset Nuclear Plant", "Somerset Nuclear Power Plant". — Rankiri (talk) 22:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * There are two different Somerset Nuclear Power Plants. One proposed, and one active in England. So I am not sure how you found "no results" as I have found some citations for both (unless your google is censored). rkmlai (talk) 22:59, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * My search for "Somerset Nuclear Plant" OR "Somerset Nuclear Power Plant" shows one single result: the very same article that is being considered for deletion. — Rankiri (talk) 23:45, 7 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep and expand. I would encourage editors to take this chance to expand on the start which has been made here. Given that we are looking at the 1970s, I would expect that there wouldn't be a lot on the internet, which tends to have more recent coverage.  But  books written during the 70s should cover major nuclear plant proposals such as this.  And I have today ordered three books from the university library with a view to expanding this and related articles.  Johnfos (talk) 04:54, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand per Johnfos rkmlai (talk) 05:55, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Unfortunately—or fortunately, depending on one's perspective—Wikipedia doesn't run on unadulterated optimism and unrealistic expectations. Without any sources there can't be any expansion. The two references mentioned by the article provide insufficient notability for a standalone article, and a number of more extensive Google searches were only able to produce the following extract from the New York Times (with a later correction that changes the name of the company to NYSEG, from Con Edison) and the following newspaper article that discusses the coal-fired plant that was built in place of the proposed nuclear station. From a pragmatic viewpoint, if no additional information can be found, this one-sentence article should either get deleted or merged into a larger article or a list. — Rankiri (talk) 16:19, 8 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. Rename to Somerset Power Plant, this active coal fired unit then to be the main topic of the article.  The present text would be relevant in a section on the historical events preceeding the construction of coal unit.  Agree that sources are too scarce to support a stand-alone article on the proposed nuclear facility.  But there is no need to delete text that, with a few twists, is suitable elsewhere. Power.corrupts (talk) 21:25, 8 June 2009 (UTC)


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