Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/South Devon Sea Wall Rail Incidents

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The result was Delete. Cbrown1023 01:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South Devon Sea Wall Rail Incidents

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Orphaned, unreferenced article dealing with a topic that seems very unencyclopedic - Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, nor is it a railway incident log! -- ChrisO 18:22, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, severely unnotable (and by appearances, original research). --Dhartung | Talk 19:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. These incidents could have become disasters with many deaths. I think they are encyclopedic. --Eastmain 19:33, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, on account that they are not really disasters, they're little more than incidents. For what it's worth, Eastmain, "could have become disasters" is nowhere near equivalent to "actually did become disasters" - by that rationale, many near-impacts on the highways should be getting documented here on WP. --Dennisthe2 19:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep and cleanup - Seems notable enough, long enough to be an article. Just missing a few refernces. AstroHurricane001^{(Talk+Contribs+Ubx)} 00:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Why is it notable? -- ChrisO 01:34, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, it's not notable unless if there were many casulties and $$ lost. AstroHurricane001^{(Talk+Contribs+Ubx)} 13:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, not particularly notable as rail incidents go. Choess 09:31, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Acts of nature that only affect a tiny area or don't cause casualties are not encyclopedic. If there is anything worth keeping merge it into the article for the line. Vegaswikian 06:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable. There are many incidents of this kind, we can't possibly list all of them. Signature^brendel 04:00, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Fails WP:Notability on the basis that there was no significant monetary cost and not even any injuries. Looks like a list of major rail delays? If we did that for every line in Britain we could fill the WP servers to capacity fairly quickly... Also fails WP:Verifiability through lack of sources. --DeLarge 16:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. A couple power outages? Track maintenance? This is laughable. --Sable232 21:56, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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