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Not really notable, air show crashes happen regularly and do not all need their own articles unless it is something like
Shoreham. Blatant reaction to Shoreham. Also fails
WP:NOTNEWS Regards,
Buttons0603 |
talk to me |
my contributions | 16:54, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete In the grand scheme of air accidents this is a minor accident, not even an airline accident. Air show stunts cannot go perfect forever.
Brandmeistertalk 17:57, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete This doesn't sound very notable at all. Plus the article is incomplete.
Versus001 (
talk) 19:17, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
to name but a few. Also it does not fail
WP:NOTNEWS beacuse the article is 1. not journalism, 2. not news reporting on a routine event, 3. not a who's who and 4. not a diary. Just because something is in the news does not automatically make it non-notable.
Greenshed (
talk) 22:21, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete. One person killed in a collision between two vehicles. Happens on the roads every day. The fact that the vehicles were planes makes no difference.
WWGB (
talk) 23:44, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete - This can be adequately covered in the relevant list and the airport article. Not every accident at an airshow needs an article.
Mjroots (
talk) 05:51, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep That something is common is not a reason to delete. There are several sources.
Averater (
talk) 06:22, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete the existence of news reports does not automatically confer Notability - after all, the media would report a pimple on Kim Kardashian's backside. There is no in-depth coverage of the subject, just "something happened in Switzerland today"-type reports; the BBC report is four sentences long. Here in Australia any fatal light aircraft accident - and many fatal car accidents - will get a similar level of coverage.
YSSYguy (
talk) 13:43, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The report in German is local coverage only; the website has articles about several local car crashes, covering them to a similar level of detail.
YSSYguy (
talk) 00:26, 25 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Written locally but available internationally. I am not aware of any rule or guideline which bars or discourages the use of reliable local sources. As for the car crashes, their notability or otherwise would need to be judged on their on merits and is not really germane to the question of whether this article should stay (see
Wikipedia:Other stuff exists).
Greenshed (
talk) 22:27, 30 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete/merge as per Mjroots--
Petebutt (
talk) 14:41, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete A 'minor' collision, resulting in one fatality, something which happens on the roads each and every day. Can't help but think this article is a reaction to events at Shoreham.
PinchHittingLeggy (
talk) 21:15, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. Based on German-language sources and others, it appears to me that this incident has gained some notoriety beyond a run-of-the-mill car crash or news report. E.g
Neue Zürcher Zeitung and
BBC News (There are others as well but I am only citing the ones which I know are likely RS, not being familiar too much with the details of news reliability). The coverage is also not just local..
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
talk,
contributions) 09:40, 26 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The BBC article is the same brief four-sentence report already linked a few days ago.
YSSYguy (
talk) 03:03, 27 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Yes, but I don't think that it's routine coverage still - major news media like the BBC usually don't care about traffic accidents and local interest only stories from abroad.
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
talk,
contributions) 22:26, 27 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete - I apologize if this comes across harsh (Not my intention) but air stunts do go wrong and not everyone of them crashes needs an article, Had it been similar to Shoreham than yeah but in comparison to that this was a very small and non-notable accident. –
Davey2010Talk 18:33, 30 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The question is not whether it "needs" an article but whether the article should stay now that it has been created. The notability of the event is principally determined by its coverage in third party reliable sources (including other languages), not by our personal views as to whether it was really that important or not. See above for links to those sources.
Greenshed (
talk) 10:17, 31 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Christ what am I 5 now ?, I've been here 3 years - I think I know what AFD & reliable sourcing is by now!, My point was that it's a small & non-notable crash (Bar the BBC there's not much coverage anywhere else). –
Davey2010Talk 14:47, 31 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Two points. First, just because compared to the worst aviation incidents the tragedy was relatively minor does not make it non-notable. Second, the major items of coverage are more than the BBC. Some of the ones I have found, after not very much searching, are:
Delete - in-depth coverage is localized. Notability is also not temporary. A year from now (and like others, I don't want to seem unfeeling) this will be mostly forgotten, and 10 years from now it will barely be a footnote.
Onel5969TT me 13:13, 31 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete, not more than news reporting,
WP:NOTNEWS. But restore and merge if an article about the Dittingen airfield (
Flugplatz Dittingen) or the Dittingen air show
Dittinger Flugtage) is ever written.
This Basel newspaper reports that there have been five crashes in the last 35 years of the biennial air show there, so there ought to be material for an article. Sandstein 17:02, 31 August 2015 (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.
Not really notable, air show crashes happen regularly and do not all need their own articles unless it is something like
Shoreham. Blatant reaction to Shoreham. Also fails
WP:NOTNEWS Regards,
Buttons0603 |
talk to me |
my contributions | 16:54, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete In the grand scheme of air accidents this is a minor accident, not even an airline accident. Air show stunts cannot go perfect forever.
Brandmeistertalk 17:57, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete This doesn't sound very notable at all. Plus the article is incomplete.
Versus001 (
talk) 19:17, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
to name but a few. Also it does not fail
WP:NOTNEWS beacuse the article is 1. not journalism, 2. not news reporting on a routine event, 3. not a who's who and 4. not a diary. Just because something is in the news does not automatically make it non-notable.
Greenshed (
talk) 22:21, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete. One person killed in a collision between two vehicles. Happens on the roads every day. The fact that the vehicles were planes makes no difference.
WWGB (
talk) 23:44, 23 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete - This can be adequately covered in the relevant list and the airport article. Not every accident at an airshow needs an article.
Mjroots (
talk) 05:51, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep That something is common is not a reason to delete. There are several sources.
Averater (
talk) 06:22, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete the existence of news reports does not automatically confer Notability - after all, the media would report a pimple on Kim Kardashian's backside. There is no in-depth coverage of the subject, just "something happened in Switzerland today"-type reports; the BBC report is four sentences long. Here in Australia any fatal light aircraft accident - and many fatal car accidents - will get a similar level of coverage.
YSSYguy (
talk) 13:43, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The report in German is local coverage only; the website has articles about several local car crashes, covering them to a similar level of detail.
YSSYguy (
talk) 00:26, 25 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Written locally but available internationally. I am not aware of any rule or guideline which bars or discourages the use of reliable local sources. As for the car crashes, their notability or otherwise would need to be judged on their on merits and is not really germane to the question of whether this article should stay (see
Wikipedia:Other stuff exists).
Greenshed (
talk) 22:27, 30 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete/merge as per Mjroots--
Petebutt (
talk) 14:41, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete A 'minor' collision, resulting in one fatality, something which happens on the roads each and every day. Can't help but think this article is a reaction to events at Shoreham.
PinchHittingLeggy (
talk) 21:15, 24 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. Based on German-language sources and others, it appears to me that this incident has gained some notoriety beyond a run-of-the-mill car crash or news report. E.g
Neue Zürcher Zeitung and
BBC News (There are others as well but I am only citing the ones which I know are likely RS, not being familiar too much with the details of news reliability). The coverage is also not just local..
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
talk,
contributions) 09:40, 26 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The BBC article is the same brief four-sentence report already linked a few days ago.
YSSYguy (
talk) 03:03, 27 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Yes, but I don't think that it's routine coverage still - major news media like the BBC usually don't care about traffic accidents and local interest only stories from abroad.
Jo-Jo Eumerus (
talk,
contributions) 22:26, 27 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete - I apologize if this comes across harsh (Not my intention) but air stunts do go wrong and not everyone of them crashes needs an article, Had it been similar to Shoreham than yeah but in comparison to that this was a very small and non-notable accident. –
Davey2010Talk 18:33, 30 August 2015 (UTC)reply
The question is not whether it "needs" an article but whether the article should stay now that it has been created. The notability of the event is principally determined by its coverage in third party reliable sources (including other languages), not by our personal views as to whether it was really that important or not. See above for links to those sources.
Greenshed (
talk) 10:17, 31 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Christ what am I 5 now ?, I've been here 3 years - I think I know what AFD & reliable sourcing is by now!, My point was that it's a small & non-notable crash (Bar the BBC there's not much coverage anywhere else). –
Davey2010Talk 14:47, 31 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Two points. First, just because compared to the worst aviation incidents the tragedy was relatively minor does not make it non-notable. Second, the major items of coverage are more than the BBC. Some of the ones I have found, after not very much searching, are:
Delete - in-depth coverage is localized. Notability is also not temporary. A year from now (and like others, I don't want to seem unfeeling) this will be mostly forgotten, and 10 years from now it will barely be a footnote.
Onel5969TT me 13:13, 31 August 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete, not more than news reporting,
WP:NOTNEWS. But restore and merge if an article about the Dittingen airfield (
Flugplatz Dittingen) or the Dittingen air show
Dittinger Flugtage) is ever written.
This Basel newspaper reports that there have been five crashes in the last 35 years of the biennial air show there, so there ought to be material for an article. Sandstein 17:02, 31 August 2015 (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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