Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hurricane preparedness

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 of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. — JIP | Talk 07:55, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane preparedness

Apparently copy-pasted from FEMA (also seen here. Possibly delete as copyvio, or transwiki to wikibooks? Rd232 ^talk 17:37, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. If it's from FEMA, it's public domain, but doesn't seem encyclopedic. Probably should just be an external link from Hurricane. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 17:51, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: if it can be rewritten as a non-how-to article, I'd keep it. -- Kjkolb 20:46, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete It's inherently a how-to article. It's also redundant given that hurricane is a good article. Also as RD232 mentioned, it's cut and pasted from elsewhere. --Bachrach44 21:44, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong KEEP. I came to it because I was just thinking of creating an article about it. We just got over (not completely) Hurricane Wilma, and I think that this article might have made the life of many people easier. And I do believe it should be a separate article from Hurricane. Thtat being said, it definitely needs cleanup. I will try to help in the next few days--AAAAA 13:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I just found the article Emergency preparedness...if that article is fine with Wikipedia, why is Hurricane preparedness not?--AAAAA 13:50, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Emergency preparedness is only slightly more encyclopedic. Hurricane preparedness makes no attempt at all to be encyclopedic. As for making the life of people easier - this information should be had from sources such as FEMA, not Wikipedia, as the disclaimer at the top of a current Hurricane page states. Rd232 ^talk 14:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Needs to be rewritten to go into more than just what an individual does such as issuing of a state of an emergency by the governor, what FEMA does to prepare, other organizations such as law enforcement and utilities. Definitely a topic that can be expanded upon and not a how-to article. --Holderca1 05:13, 5 November 2005 (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.