Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Worst natural disaster in US history

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The result of the debate was delete. &middot; Katefan0(scribble) 18:27, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Worst natural disaster in US history
POV and probably original research. Some of it might be worth merging with Hurricane Katrina, but I'm not sure what. Demogorgon's Soup-taster 15:26, 5 September 2005 (UTC) If that's true it can be covered in the Hurricane article. No one's going to look up such a long catch phrase. List of major natural disasters in the United States and List of United States disasters by death toll do a fine job at determining the severity of US disasters. - Mgm|(talk) 19:48, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. The current article isn't very good, but it could potentially be turned into an interesting and well referenced page like Films that have been considered the greatest ever. - SimonP 15:44, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete The title is awful.  What happens if/when something worse happens?  Delete the article?  If they want, they could make a list article with the title: "Worst natural disasters in US history."  I'm still not sure if this is the worst anyway, about 3000 died in 1906 San Francisco earthquake.  --Quasipalm 16:19, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Do you mean a list article like List of major natural disasters in the United States or List of United States disasters by death toll? Uncle G 18:04:25, 2005-09-05 (UTC)
 * Delete. The current article is a personal opinion/essay piece (Wikipedia is not a blog). If it were recreated as an article listing estimates in terms of numbers dead or estimated damage caused with references, then it might be worth keeping. Average Earthman 16:44, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Worthless title, horrible POV. Simon might be right, but I'm not entirely sure how to go at it. Earthman has a similar point. But this article needs to go away. --Golbez 17:38, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It almost seems like a really long test page. Marskell 18:11, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research/POV --IByte 18:43, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * This is a catch phrase used by the media and government officials to try to convey the magnitude of a catastrophy.
 * Delete. Worst article title in Wikipedia history. — Phil Welch 01:22, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Eventually it seems reasonable to simply stop contributing rants disguised as articles to Wikipedia. -- llywrch 00:00, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and merge with Hurricane Katrina 70.224.79.181 20:33, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Blogs are free, man.  Get one. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 21:51, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I think that the article shows a definite point of view. Could a heading be put with Hurricane Katrina concerning viewpoints about it be labeled Worst natural disaster in US history? Could then the page for Worst natural disaster in US history be used to point to the objectively relevant worst US natural disaster? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.115.131.196 (talk • contribs) 03:10, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nice blog essay, but terrible encyclopedia article.  The policy guideline page What_Wikipedia_is_not specifically states that Wikipedia is not a blog .---CH  (talk) 23:20, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
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