Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 62nd Street explosion

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.

The result was delete. 1ne 00:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 62nd Street explosion

There is no doubt this article was created at the time when the cause of fire was unknown (and some suspected terrorism). But now, the cause of the explosion is, for the most part, known; it was a simple gas explosion (perhaps caused by suicide attempt). So now what makes this gas fire more noteworthy than others? The fact that it occured in New York City? Fires happen in New York City and other cities around the world all the time. Ten years from now, few are going to care about this fire; even ten days from now, few are going to care about this fire. And so, this is just a news event, not an encyclopedic topic. joturner 21:15, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Not worth keeping up. Minor event. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Morris Stevenson (talk • contribs) .
  • Note that this recommendation comes chronologically immediately after mine below and is the sixth edit by this user. GRBerry 20:43, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. What joturner said. It was a spectacular suicide, nothing more. --Dhartung | Talk 21:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per above. --PresN 22:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete; minor event. Wikipedia is not Wikinews. Extraordinary Machine 22:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- Northenglish (talk) -- 23:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete: Better left to Wikinews and network television instead. --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 00:31, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 00:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I was in Midtown Manhattan, not far from there yesterday afternoon, and it was just business as usual. --Aude (talk contribs) 00:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, better off on Wikinews. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 03:28, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, notable news event. Has gotten lots of coverage. I find the delete votes quite surprising. Everyking 05:40, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Completely unnotable news event: gas explosion levels building. But hey! Larry King heard it! --Calton | Talk 11:04, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep--Notable Event. Storm05 17:21, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wikinews as they currently lack an article on the subject. Delete as Wikinews already has an article. I found it after a couple more search steps, the article is under the title Building collapses in Manhattan for July 10. A prime example of why news coverage should begin at Wikinews - this way ultimately nonencyclopedic news stories don't clutter the encyclopedia. GRBerry 17:47, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as recentism, a big problem for Wikipedia at the moment. Batmanand | Talk 13:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Batmanand -- RoySmith (talk) 03:37, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This is a great story that has gotten massive world-wide coverage and now has nearly 1,000 google news hits. [1]. It's not everyday that someone tries to commit suicide by blowing up a a $10 million dollar landmark building in Manhattan. In fact, suicide by house is, as far as I can tell, an entirely new twist to the business of screwing over the wife and kids after a messy divorce. In my opinion, this will be in the news for quite sometime (civil suits, etc) and will remain an integral part of NYC lore (not to mention the questions raised about divorce and suicide). The article should be renamed to the street address (the house itself has an interesting history as a meeting place for intelligence gathering during WWII). --JJay 02:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom --Rye1967 03:18, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, nn. --Mrmiscellanious 03:26, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, rename to 62nd Street explosion --Melaen 10:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Explosion. Herostratus 19:05, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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.