Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Towers fire

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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:22, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Towers fire

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WP:NOTNEWS. A building fire with one dead, while tragic, is an everyday occurrence. It makes the news now, and is then in nearly all cases ignored again in reliable sources. The time to make this article is when it turns out to have lasting notability after all, not now. Fram (talk) 09:41, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:11, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:11, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Harrow Court fire, I think the two fires are linked via the town of Stevenage and the same council, with similar issues. I am not why you say NOTNEWS, when in essence it is news! I think if there is a merge the Harrow Court fire should be renamed to reference the two incidents. Govvy (talk) 12:42, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- "in essence it is news": perhaps you should read WP:NOTNEWS then. None of the three news sources about this fire (in the article) even make the connection with the other fire of 12 years ago (nor with the Grenfell tower fire, which is also mentioned in the lead of our article), so a merge would basically be a WP:SYNTH / WP:COATRACK violation. Fram (talk) 13:03, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete While obviously a tragic event, I don't see anything that makes it exceptionally notable. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 16:27, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Insufficiently significant to justify an article. --Michig (talk) 18:40, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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