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The result was delete. Sr13 07:21, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Biaora level crossing accident[edit]

Non-notable rail-to-vehicle collision. As the article mention, this is pretty typical from India, and List of road accidents givens a number of deadlier accident for the country, making this one thoroughly non-notable. Circeus 00:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1. Weak Delete In principle we're talking about a non-notable article with no functional references (I believe the link in that page is dead), but there's one thing which caught my attention and might, in my opinion, warrant its stay: the fact the cart's driver was carrying jewels with him when the acident happened. According to the article, the man claims the police stole them. Did this cause any sort of controversy in India? Perhaps this was important back there.

   It was not possible for me to tell with the state of the article, I'm assuming that any extra verifiable notability will surface during the debate. Circeus 01:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2. Delete I'd forgotten this was on my watchlist, I put there a year ago along with comments on the talk page to the effect of the nominators point. Accidents of this magnitude are far from uncommon in India and media coverage was virtually zero. Simply non-notable.--Jackyd101 01:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
3. Delete : Nothing significant to warrant an article. Accidents like this are quite common in a country with world's largest rail network. --Ragib 01:16, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
4. Delete, no verifiable sourcing. Hornplease 02:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, even the article says This incident is typical of dozens of tragic accidents which mar India's railway system every year. WP:NOT Wikinews. Few if any WP:RS on which an article can be based. --Kinu ^t/_c 03:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 12:01, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Non-notable accident involving non-notable people under non-notable circumstances. Unfortunately fatal accidents are not an uncommon thing, and without something to show this is notably different than the rest, it is not appropriate for an encyclopedia entry. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 15:02, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOT#NEWS - not the place for news reports Corpx 16:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Arkyan and Corpx. Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Had this tragedy led to changes in railroad crossing practices, or lower speed regulations for trains, or had some enduring societal implications, it might have been more notable than all the other train/vehicle encounters. Edison 16:53, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete unfortunate but ultimately not notable. Carlossuarez46 18:23, 12 July 2007 (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.