Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 Australia heat wave

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 16:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Australia has multiple heat waves during summer, this particular article describes a pretty typical Austraia heat wave - not an unusual, notable or encyclopedic weather event. Delete.--Peta 00:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete until I see some sources backing this up. Every summer I hear about heat waves, so I have no idea why this one should be different. --Wafulz 01:07, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment — Could this be renamed and expanded? SynergeticMaggot 01:07, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename the existing article, since it's not about a heat wave so much as the results thereof. At that juncture, the question of whether one hot summer with bushfires is more notable than another one needs to be asked. BigHaz 01:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - NN, just one heatwave of many, if necessary, add something to the main article -- pm_shef 01:26, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, we don't create articles for every climactically normal meteorological event of only tiny significance to the wider community. SM247^{My Talk} 02:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. --דניאל ^{talk contribs Email} 02:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete We had some hot weather and bushfires but nothing unusual by Australian standards. Capitalistroadster 04:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Capitalistroadster 04:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename to something about bushfires. --WikiCats 04:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete a meteorological event would have to be pretty incredible to be notable enough, this sort of temperature and resulting bushfires are not unusual for summer in Australia. That said, the article is a bit Sydney-centric. I'm pretty sure it was about 15 degrees in Hobart for example, so certainly not a country-wide phenomenon. --Canley 04:48, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename This article should change into an article about the 2005-06 summer bushfires. And before one of you says it, articles abour each summer bushfires are like articles about American cyclones which Wikipedia already has Aussie King Pin 05:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. There was a heatwave this summer? I remember some hot days, but nothing out of the ordinary. Claims like this need to be referenced - if there really was a significant heat wave there would be plenty of media articles on it. Mako 09:13, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete If it happened here in Scotland, it would be notable, but this sounds like a typical aussie summer to me Lurker ^haver 10:25, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Change to The weather in Sydney (currently a redlink) Delete Andjam 12:57, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete rubbish article about relatively non-notable bushfires. That said, I would say that that the hottest Sydney temperature in 70 years (not just hottest NYD temperature) is out of the ordinary, just not worthy of an article. JPD (talk) 13:46, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep this was a very important heat wave and 'notable'. VanHalen 20:53, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Ooh, it got a bit warmer than usual in Australia? Hold the front page! On second thoughts, Delete! -- Necrothesp 22:06, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Perhaps the article can be merged with a more general article about weather or Australia. --Midnightcomm 22:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete It was hot but that's an Australian Summer for you. Nothing more notable than another dozen very hot spells in the last 30 years - Peripitus (Talk) 08:07, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.