Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/January 2017 European cold wave (2nd nomination)

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The result was keep. Consensus is for the article to be retained. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:27, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

January 2017 European cold wave (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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WP:SYNTHESIS of ordinary weather reports. Winter is cold; who knew? Nice pictures, though. — JFG ^talk 09:35, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Full AfD list of non-notable cold waves:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 European cold wave: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007 Western United States freeze: N Deleted
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winter of 2010–11 in Great Britain and Ireland: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spring 2013 United Kingdom cold spell: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/November 2014 North American cold wave: No consensus; overlaps November 13–21, 2014 North American winter storm and 2014–15 North American winter, potential to merge
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/February 2015 North American cold wave: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Siberian Express: Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/January 2017 European cold wave (2nd nomination): Y Kept
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017–18 North American cold wave: No consensus; suggested merge to 2017–18 North American winter

Thanks for participating. — JFG ^talk 10:20, 9 August 2018 (UTC) — Updated 09:12, 2 September 2018 (UTC).[reply]

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• Keep International coverage of an out of the ordinary event. Agathoclea (talk) 12:28, 9 August 2018 (UTC)I[reply]
• Keep. Substantial international coverage of major and extremely abnormal (i.e. much more than just "Winter is cold...") weather event causing large-scale disruption and multiple deaths. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:21, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions. Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 14:23, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Winter happens every year, sometimes worse than other years, and broken weather records are quite frequent. Sources are contemporaneous weather news that do not provide lasting impacts or notability. Reywas92^Talk 18:59, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Not synthesis. Here's an Atmosphere article specifically discussing its extent. Daß Wölf 00:45, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's a useful academic analysis of the phenomenon, many thanks for finding it! Care to add some words to the article citing this? — JFG ^talk 08:15, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not a climatologist but I might give it a try. There's already a fair bit about Greece in there. Daß Wölf 01:11, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Contains adequate sources and has great international coverage. AmericanAir88 (talk) 14:57, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep - Highly notable event documented by multiple sources. This event had extremely severe impacts on parts of Europe, particularly the high death toll and the near-depletion of coal reserves of a country. LightandDark2000 (talk) 16:47, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Satisfies GNG. James500 (talk) 16:28, 21 August 2018 (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.