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The result was redirect to History of Delta Air Lines. (non-admin closure) Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 07:45, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2016 Delta Air Lines power outage[edit]

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Subject fails WP:NOTNEWS and WP:NEVENT. There is nothing here of any long term significance. A PROD tag was attached and removed (in good faith) with the suggestion that the article could be redirected to History of Delta. I don't see a redirect being useful in this case. And the subject is so trivial in its long term importance I don't believe it merits a footnote in the main Delta article. Even with the WP:Recentism bias that is so ubiquitous on the project, this is just indefensible. Ad Orientem (talk) 19:28, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions. ansh 666 19:35, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to History of Delta. It is notable enough, but not for a stand alone article. Would be better placed here. The article also fails WP:NOTNEWS. Class455 (talk) 19:56, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Class455 (talk) 19:57, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/Redirect to History of Delta as Class455fan1 said, it is notable but I also do not think it needs a standalone article. -- Dane2007 ^talk 20:31, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to History_of_Delta_Air_Lines#Grounding_of_flights_in_2016 Ottawahitech (talk) 20:49, 12 August 2016 (UTC)please ping me[reply]
Merge/redirect I would say it warrants a footnote on the Delta history article. Perhaps a sentence or two, but not much more. It's an aviation incident, which is therefore arguably notable, but does not, at this time, seem to have much in the way of significance. Icarosaurvus (talk) 21:55, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Largely unprecedented flight catastrophe. If the article cannot be kept, it should be redirected. --Jax 0677 (talk) 22:26, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect (History_of_Delta_Air_Lines#Grounding_of_flights_in_2016) per WP:NOTNEWS. Adog104 ^{Talk to me} 23:45, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Merge/redirect as suggested. Notable due to being a major technological failure which will no doubt be the subject of various case studies. VMS Mosaic (talk) 01:31, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/Redirect to History of Delta Air Lines § Grounding of flights in 2016. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:59, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Definitely not notable enough for a standalone article. A similar event at Southwest Airlines got a paragraph, not even a subsection, in the history section of the main article (doesn't have a separate history article). A Redirect to the history article might be appropriate if a substantial explanation can be written there, but currently it's two sentences. ThunderBacon (talk) 06:09, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reply - WP:CHEAP/WP:TOOSHORT. --Jax 0677 (talk) 13:42, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to the reply There is not the slightest long term significance in this event. It doesn't just fail WP:NEVENT, it does so grossly. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:43, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Unless this turns out to be some kind of watershed incident of hacking or the like, this is just another example of another company's server failing causing headaches and frustration to thousands of customers. --Oakshade (talk) 23:55, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to the history article, WP:NOTNEWS. It can be spun back out if it proves to be a significant incident as Oakshade describes. ansh 666 19:12, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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