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Keep So long as we continue to apply
WP:NOTNEWS as narrowly as we do…the article seems to pass GNG and as it was in a non-Western (but somewhat Anglophone) country I’m inclined to give the benefit of the doubt notability-wise.
Keep: changed from Delete based on recent coverage found by
Left guide, which invalidates my earlier WP:LASTING argument. The administrative attention this is now getting also suggests it will result in regulatory amendments to electrical or building codes.
Owen×☎23:46, 21 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete to the
WP:LASTING notes above, I'd add
WP:GEOSCOPE,
WP:DEPTH and
WP:PERSISTENCE, all of which are lacking. For
RadioactiveBoulevardier's objections above, I'd say that the tide of ill-advised AfD conclusions that go against policy are lamentable, but should not be used as a reason to keep something that does not meet
WP:GNG or
WP:NEVENT. If it happened in Miami and had the same sourcing, I'd !vote the exactly same way (and have on the plethora of news events like yet another mass shooting that similarly lacks DEPTH and EFFECT). Cheers,
Last1in (
talk)
16:05, 7 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Weak keep I feel like if an event happened in the US of this scale, it would be SNOW kept at AFD. We have to be wary of systematic bias on Wikipedia.
166.198.251.71 (
talk)
23:50, 7 December 2023 (UTC)reply
You may very well be right. There is, indeed, a systematic bias at play, but it is external to Wikipedia. Secondary sources - news, in this case - is biased in favour of covering Western world events. And since we here on Wikipedia are bound by the requirement to base our content on secondary sources, we end up with more coverage for events in the Western world whether we choose to or not. It's an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of compiling an encyclopedia that isn't based on original research.
Owen×☎23:54, 14 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: There is just about a consensus for delete here, although Left guide's comment needs to be responded to/refuted for that consensus to be strong enough to close as delete. Alternatively additional support for their view may lead to a no consensus closure. Final relist to hopefully reach a consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Daniel (
talk)
23:38, 21 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment -- The new sourcing found by
Left guide does include one excellent
WP:SECONDARY reference, as the Express-Tribune article has some
WP:DEPTH and analytical, non-primary content. The remaining sources, including the original cites, are still
WP:PRIMARYNEWS. They are not continued
WP:SIGCOV or
WP:PERSISTENCE, just routine news announcements that report on a new development. That one secondary source is strong, however, but it's a very tenuous peg on which to hang this article, especially without any
WP:GEOSCOPE. Without more such sourcing – or, even better, if they enact one or more of the recommendations specified in the Express-Tribune piece to satisfy
WP:LASTING – I maintain that the article still does not pass
WP:NEVENT. Cheers,
Last1in (
talk)
20:39, 23 December 2023 (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.
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.
Keep So long as we continue to apply
WP:NOTNEWS as narrowly as we do…the article seems to pass GNG and as it was in a non-Western (but somewhat Anglophone) country I’m inclined to give the benefit of the doubt notability-wise.
Keep: changed from Delete based on recent coverage found by
Left guide, which invalidates my earlier WP:LASTING argument. The administrative attention this is now getting also suggests it will result in regulatory amendments to electrical or building codes.
Owen×☎23:46, 21 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete to the
WP:LASTING notes above, I'd add
WP:GEOSCOPE,
WP:DEPTH and
WP:PERSISTENCE, all of which are lacking. For
RadioactiveBoulevardier's objections above, I'd say that the tide of ill-advised AfD conclusions that go against policy are lamentable, but should not be used as a reason to keep something that does not meet
WP:GNG or
WP:NEVENT. If it happened in Miami and had the same sourcing, I'd !vote the exactly same way (and have on the plethora of news events like yet another mass shooting that similarly lacks DEPTH and EFFECT). Cheers,
Last1in (
talk)
16:05, 7 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Weak keep I feel like if an event happened in the US of this scale, it would be SNOW kept at AFD. We have to be wary of systematic bias on Wikipedia.
166.198.251.71 (
talk)
23:50, 7 December 2023 (UTC)reply
You may very well be right. There is, indeed, a systematic bias at play, but it is external to Wikipedia. Secondary sources - news, in this case - is biased in favour of covering Western world events. And since we here on Wikipedia are bound by the requirement to base our content on secondary sources, we end up with more coverage for events in the Western world whether we choose to or not. It's an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of compiling an encyclopedia that isn't based on original research.
Owen×☎23:54, 14 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: There is just about a consensus for delete here, although Left guide's comment needs to be responded to/refuted for that consensus to be strong enough to close as delete. Alternatively additional support for their view may lead to a no consensus closure. Final relist to hopefully reach a consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Daniel (
talk)
23:38, 21 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Comment -- The new sourcing found by
Left guide does include one excellent
WP:SECONDARY reference, as the Express-Tribune article has some
WP:DEPTH and analytical, non-primary content. The remaining sources, including the original cites, are still
WP:PRIMARYNEWS. They are not continued
WP:SIGCOV or
WP:PERSISTENCE, just routine news announcements that report on a new development. That one secondary source is strong, however, but it's a very tenuous peg on which to hang this article, especially without any
WP:GEOSCOPE. Without more such sourcing – or, even better, if they enact one or more of the recommendations specified in the Express-Tribune piece to satisfy
WP:LASTING – I maintain that the article still does not pass
WP:NEVENT. Cheers,
Last1in (
talk)
20:39, 23 December 2023 (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
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