The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:49, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

March 2010 Sumatra earthquake[edit]

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Not enough reliable sources to write a verifiable article. Notability not established. WP:NOTNEWS Aditya Ex Machina 15:35, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete News, yes, notable, no. Part of the 2010 earthquakes project that I think is aiming to literally have 2,010 earthquakes. Mandsford 20:32, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I am the article's creator. This article is about a major, 6.8 magnitude earthquake. It is listed as a 2010 significant earthquake by the USGS (the list can be found here: [1]). This article was nominated for deletion once before but kept. Also, we have many articles about much smaller earthquakes, such as the 4.4-magnitude 2010 Pico Rivera earthquake. It also had coverage on CNN and other news agencies. Av9 (talk) 22:03, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Also USGS's criteria of inclusion is significantly lower than Wikipedia's. Aditya Ex Machina 22:40, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. No sense keeping a non-notable earthquake that just "caused panic." AlexHOUSE (talk) 22:08, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As an explanation, I think that what happened before was that the article was "prodded", and the proposed deletion was contested by removing the tag. So far as I can tell, the article has not been nominated until now. Mandsford 02:45, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Sumatra has had its fair share of significant earthquakes over the past decade, this is not one of them. RapidR (talk) 13:13, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Earthquakes like this are commonplace in Indonesia and this particular one lacks notability unlike some other ones e.g. the one that happened in May which was over magnitude 7 and caused some minor damage. Justmeagain83 (talk) 05:35, 27 May 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.