Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2010 Texas earthquake

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The result was delete. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 02:09, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2010 Texas earthquake

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Minor earthquake with no injuries or property damage. No indication of notability - there are thousands of earthquakes of this magnitude every year. Disputed prod. noq (talk) 15:36, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Delete Clearly a non-notable event, and actually this could almost be an A1/A3 candidate. --JForget 15:49, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete We should not have articles which give only one fact, since that almost always shows that the subject is not notable. Kitfoxxe (talk) 16:02, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Just an unusual magnitude for this location. 173.49.136.107 (talk) 16:27, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

comment is there a source that claims this was of unusual magnitude? it seems to me [[1]] that or higher is not that rare. There seems to me a need for RS establishing this as notable.Slatersteven (talk) 17:10, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:11, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:11, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A 4.0 quake shakes the windows in the same way that an idling train might, but that's all, so it's no surprise that there were no injuries. I'm sure there were people who said "what was that?" Notwithstanding that it passes the now-and-here evaluation used for many Wikipedia articles (i.e. Did it happen this morning? Did it happen in the U.S.A.?), this isn't worth it's own article. There are thousands of such tremors every year. To put it in perspective, nobody cares about a 4.0 tremor that happened this morning in Zambia, and nobody cares about a 4.0 tremor that happened in Texas in 1970. Mandsford (talk) 23:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. Armbrust ^Talk* _Contribs 02:36, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Redirect to 2010 South Texas earthquake --Francesco Betti Sorbelli (talk) 09:16, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
comment A page that looks like a fork to keep this on wiki.Slatersteven (talk) 11:24, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It figures, two articles about the same non-notable event. This article gets the blue ribbon for getting created five hours sooner than the other one. Maybe we should redirect that one to this one and then delete both of them. Mandsford (talk) 12:35, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated the otehr page for deletion as well.Slatersteven (talk) 12:52, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOTNEWS and WP:N; minor earthquakes happen daily, if not hourly, and this one is certainly nothing but a minor earthquake that most people barely noticed. Certainly not a notable earthquake by any standard, nor is its magnitude that rare. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 14:36, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - It was mentioned in The Houston Chronicle, but there's not enough coverage to pass WP:NOTNEWS and WP:GNG. P. D. Cook ^{Talk to me!} 15:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete 92.1.64.253 (talk) 01:39, 30 April 2010 (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.