Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 Indiana Plane Crash (2nd nomination)

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. - Mailer Diablo 06:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Indiana Plane Crash

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 Indiana Plane Crash original nomination closed as merge. Talk:Indiana_University_Bloomington#2006_Plane_Crash_Merger - Destination article discussion is against merge. Not a notable plane crash, and WP:NOT a memorial. Delete. – Chacor 13:24, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

• Merge-I dont know why no one merged this article a while ago. Storm05 13:26, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Because the merge was rejected by editors at the destination article. Therefore, simple delete - a merge won't work. – Chacor 13:27, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per first AFD, and fact that the only sensible merger location is inappropriate: "transient current events have no business being part of an institution's article".--Nilfanion (talk) 13:31, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a memorial. What happened was tragic, but does not appear to have affected the university or the Bloomington community, apart from those people who lost a loved one. -- Merope 13:50, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per above. Hurricanehink (talk) 15:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as Recentism. Batmanand | Talk 16:39, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Unless the event’s identity is seared into the public memory in a way that ties the event directly to the name of the institution (such as the 1970 national guard shootings at Kent State), then a transient current event that happened in the rural countryside outside of a college town has no business being mentioned in the nearby-university’s article. The plane did not crash on campus nor have any other direct link to the institution other than killing five students. I wouldn't be surprised if there is at least one other accident (e.g., horse-and-wagon mishap, car crash, construction accident) that also killed 5 IU students/employees within a certain radius of Bloomington at some point over the years since IU's founding in the 1820s and that other accident doesn't warrant its own article nor appear in the Indiana University Bloomington article. Recentism. Perhaps someone’s blog or personal website would be a better place to memorialize the 2006 Indiana Plane Crash tragedy outside of Wikipedia. If the editors of 2006 Indiana Plane Crash opt for that choice outside of Wikipedia, they should please remember to copy 2006 Indiana Plane Crash’s content while it still exists. —optikos 13:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Optikos and the original AFD. Wikipedia is not a memorial, either. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 01:00, 3 September 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.