Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Britannia flight 3142

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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 Redirect to Britannia Airways Flight BY226A. —Quarl (talk) 2006-12-31 06:15Z

[edit] Britannia flight 3142

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This article and Britannia Airways Flight BY226A both appeared around the end of November. I am the author of the latter article and was unaware at the time of the article I am now proposing for deletion. On 14 December 2006, User:Scott Wilson, presumably having been astute enough to spot the two similar articles, proposed their merger and posted notices on each. I posted messages on each discussion page, stating that I believed the Britannia flight 3142 article to be wrongly named, and subsequent web searches convince me of this as I also stated on both discussion pages on 20 December. There have been no other comments made and I have now merged some details from the 3142 page to my BY226A page. Therefore, on the grounds that a) Britannia flight 3142 is wrongly named and b) all useful material from it has been merged, I am proposing that the page should be deleted Emeraude 15:11, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Comment - A merge is definitely necessary, but how do we determine wich title is correct? Jayden54 16:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Once merged wouldn't one be made into a redirect to the other? Why delete? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 17:09, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect since the merge has already been done. Akradecki 18:28, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
    • I have done this, now all we need is an admin to speedy close this AfD. Akradecki 18:34, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete both this and the re-direct. Nothing to establish that this crash was particularly notable. No fatalities, no major changes in airline procedure resulting from it, etc... - fchd 08:33, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Comments 1. BY226A is the correct name. 2. Not particularly notable? Airliner breaks into three but no one killed. Seems noteworthy to me. 3. Redirect may cause problems for anyone looking for details of the crash of flight 3142 in Buenos Aires (see my comments in talk page for BY226A here) which is why I suggested delete.Emeraude 11:40, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. The redirect's history should certainly be kept in some form since it contains a history of content which was used and merged with another article, deleting the history is a violation of the GFDL. Indeed, a consensus to overrule that requirement would be invalid. Therefore, if you want the redirect gone, the page should be history merged first. Regarding the article itself, that should be kept since crash landings of large jetliners are definitely enormously perilous for a large number of people and of significant media and general interest, so I cannot understand a call to delete that thing. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:09, 27 December 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.