Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 European cold wave

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The result was keep. – Joe (talk) 15:00, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2006 European cold wave (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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WP:SYNTHESIS of anecdotal weather reports. No strong effects or WP:LASTING significance. Snow in Southern Europe happens occasionally. Nothing special in 2006. Wikipedia is not the Weather Channel. — JFG ^talk 09:19, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Full AfD list of non-notable cold waves:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 European cold wave: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007 Western United States freeze: N Deleted
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winter of 2010–11 in Great Britain and Ireland: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spring 2013 United Kingdom cold spell: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/November 2014 North American cold wave: No consensus; overlaps November 13–21, 2014 North American winter storm and 2014–15 North American winter, potential to merge
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/February 2015 North American cold wave: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Siberian Express: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/January 2017 European cold wave (2nd nomination): Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017–18 North American cold wave: No consensus; suggested merge to 2017–18 North American winter

Thanks for participating. — JFG ^talk 10:20, 9 August 2018 (UTC) — Updated 09:12, 2 September 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:10, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:10, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:40, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep International coverage of an out of the ordinary event. Agathoclea (talk) 12:29, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Winter happens every year, sometimes worse than other years. Sources are contemporaneous weather news that do not provide lasting impacts or notability. Reywas92^Talk 18:56, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Just upon fact checking the first source mentioned in the article, I ran into WP:SYNTHESIS. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:03, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 20:55, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Unlike many/most of the articles nominated in this wave, this one isn't simply the Anglosphere Only Movement promoting itself. Snow in Lisbon is, by an order of magnitude, more notable than snow in London. RobinCarmody (talk) 21:39, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - it does seem to have WP:LASTING, here are a few papers about it [1][2], and here's Munich Re's report listing it as the deadliest cold snap in the 1980-2011 period. Daß Wölf 00:52, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Changed to strong keep - looking at the Red Cross report, there were over 1,000 fatalities and over $1 billion in crop damage. I'd say this is at the very least a strong contender for the most damaging winter weather event in Europe in the last few decades. Daß Wölf 03:35, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per Dab Wolf. AmericanAir88 (talk) 14:55, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Daß Wölf. James500 (talk) 16:04, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: a major natural phenomenon with significant death toll and economic effects. Meets WP:LASTING. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:29, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This article contains WP:ROUTINE winter weather coverage and fails WP:GNG because no sources exist demonstrating significant notability for this event. Wikipedia is not the Weather channel, so it is not a repository for every new temperature or snowfall record that some find interesting. There is also nothing significantly notable regarding this winter caused crop damage, which happens every year to some degree in Europe. Moving onto fatalities, while these deaths were tragic for these individuals and their loved ones, in 2011, on average over 150,000 humans died every day on Earth |[1]. Earths population was smaller in 2006 so it would have been slightly fewer then, but the point is clear. Huge numbers of people die every day, including from the elements, and there was nothing remarkable about the death toll in Europe's winter of 2006. Newshunter12 (talk) 13:48, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Per K.e.coffman. 208.54.87.254 (talk) 04:42, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.