Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northwest Airlines Flight 42

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. (aeropagitica) 22:53, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Northwest Airlines Flight 42

Now that the suspicious passengers have been cleared and there was no malintent, there's really nothing to see here. This is just another security scare in a post-9|11 world; that's not notable enough it have its own article. -- tariqabjotu 04:20, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - Covered by many news sources, that makes notability criteria for people, corporations, and software, why not events? --Daniel Olsen 04:52, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, notable flight incident. --Terence Ong _{(T | C)} 05:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Many things are covered by many news sources that are not encyclopedic. I agree with the nom, we do not need a separate article for every single minor airline scare, especially as their frequency will only continue to grow. This is akin to writing a separate article for every aftershock of a major earthquake. Resolute 05:46, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, notable enough for a newspaper or magazine, but not an encyclopedia. There may have been news coverage, but that is just because people are nervous about terrorist attacks, especially involving planes. Also, there have been many other scares. Another analogy would be to have an article on when a volcano was expected to erupt and some evacuations occured, but the volcano never erupted and no significant changes came as a result. -- Kjkolb 06:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, articles shouldn't be kept on expectation of notability, nor past expectation of notability. It's not like the plane actually crashed. Gazpacho 08:54, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into Northwest Airlines. It may not be notable as a stand-alone article, but it was an incident in the airline's history, and the timing was of note (after the response to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot and during the impasse between NWA flight attendants and management, both of which provided more scrutiny for NWA). If incidents of equipment failures are included in the Northwest Airlines article, why shouldn't an incident that was equally of concern amongst passengers and crew? Tinlinkin 10:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
  • OK, I concede that the whole thing doesn't need a merge, so delete. Tinlinkin 04:53, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as WP is not a newspaper per WP:NOT. See Wikinews. Also, NWA's labor problems are not the topic of this article. Tychocat 10:24, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 11:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, false alarm. Powers ^T 15:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• comment the incident wasn't significant enough for the airline to retire the flight number type 42 into flight number status field. Smmurphy^(Talk) 18:18, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as Recentism. Not even a notable part of the history of Northwest Airlines, let alone of the world. Batmanand | Talk 20:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is not a newspaper. If something similar happens later and this incident acquires historical or other value from the comparison, an article could be written then. --Shirahadasha 22:29, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. This was a false alarm, and Wikipedia is not Wikinews. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 22:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete compared to other incidents and accidents on airliners, this one really seems pretty weak. - Blood red sandman 00:48, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. There is nothing inherently notable in Northwest Airlines Flight 42. There are several of them every week. This article deals with a miniscule part of the flight's history etc., a false alarm which has received 'one coverage' as defined in wiki notability criteria in WP:BIO. I contend that it is not a signicant event in aviation or terrorism history or the history of the airline in that, although it may result in a review of air-marshals' procedures, it would not have a significant impact on future events that suggests that it would pass a 20 year test, let alone a 100 year test. Ohconfucius 02:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete not notable. -Kmaguir1 05:47, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable incident, Wikipedia is not Wikinews. Kusma (討論) 12:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
• comment: I agree that it turned out to be pretty trivial. However, the "not Wikinews" comments don't make much sense to me. There is a place in Wikipedia for current events as the repository for all the world's knowledge. This event probably won't rank as historically significant, though. --Elliskev 16:20, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Security scare, but the plane was never in any real peril. Such diversions are usually quickly forgotten. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:23, 29 August 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.