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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 of the debate was Keep  (aeropagitica)  06:28, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Solar eclipse on 2006 March 29

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I get the feeling this might be an unpopular one, but I don't see anything notable about a particular given eclipse, that can't be summarised in the solar eclipse article itself. There's a nice gallery, which can go off to Commons, and the rest isn't worth keeping IMHO. Erath 22:21, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. Because it happened recently and informs people who are interested in this particlar eclipse. beccus April 04, 2006 17:00 UTC
  • Keep!. Why not. It's a good page that summarizes something people may be interested in.
  • Delete. A year from now nobody will remember the exact date Dwp49423 01:47, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Do it. It was significant.
  • Keep. Why not? It's something people will want to read about over the next few years.
  • Keep. Total solar eclispes only happen once every two years or less. It's notable in that respect.--Adam (talk) 22:26, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Total eclipses are rare and significant events. See NASA publication for the eclipse on 2006 March 29, it is 27 MB, contains many related information, not only a gallery. — Yaohua2000 22:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Delete and Merge. Isn't there just a list of every time a total solar eclipse had happened/will happen? The individual articles will all read identical anyway, so just merge them into a list, and make that a "see also" on the Solar Eclipse entry. - Darkhawk (29 March 2006 @ 17:35 EST)
  • Merge. add this info to the List of solar eclipses article. - Christopher 22:32, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete and Merge There is nothing special about this eclipse. This is a classic case of recentism. joturner 22:36, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I understand that just because it happened in 2006, more people want to read and write about it, but I think if we could write about all the eclipses that ever happened it would be a powerful resource. So I don't think there is anything wrong with "recentism". Donama 02:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete and Merge per Joturner. MrMurph101 22:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete and Merge. Add to List of solar eclipses. Allemannster 22:46, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. These are unique events that don't happen every day. People who see them often remember them for their whole lives. As a reference work we should have articles on this type of thing. -- JJay 22:51, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge into List of solar eclipses article. The eclipse is now a historical eclipse and its only claim to noteworthiness is that it is the most recent total eclipse. Apart from being an eclipse, it is not particularly noteworthy from an astronomical point of view because it was not particularly long or short nor had particular historical events associated with it. By comparison, the longest total solar eclipse of the 20th century, 1991 July 11, does not have a separate article. This eclipse was well studied because the path of totality passed over major observatories in Hawaii, USA. The same criteria should be applied to other eclipse articles that are not significant from an astronomical perspective. The article Solar eclipse on 1999 August 11 is only noteworthy because the line of totality passed over Europe, but in eclipse terms and from a global perspective the 1999 eclipse itself is not particularly noteworthy. Therefore the article Solar eclipse on 1999 August 11 should also be considered for deletion or merging for the same reasons as the article Solar eclipse on 2006 March 29.

--B.d.mills 22:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep Whilst the moon passing in front of the sun is the same for every total eclipse, the path the eclipse follows, and which countries it visits, is unique. This, plus recording of the reactions of different cultures to the eclipse, is worth keeping.
  • Keep, for all of the reasons thus far presented. Some have noted that other prior eclipse do not have a dedicated article - therefore, neither should should this one [of 2006 March 29]. However, the problem with this argument is that Wikipedia is ever expanding. In fact, nothing is stopping anyone from creating a new article for the 11 July 1991 eclipse right now. And I think it would be a good idea to have a page charting all known eclipses - to which this one can be linked. Stephenw77 01:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. This is a part of history (and a rare one if I might add). No reason what so ever not to keep this.
  • Keep. - Kubra 07:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Has has been said many times, this isn't a paper encyclopedia; we could have one page for each solar eclipse, and I think there's enough notable information on each eclipse to justify doing so. -- Ch'marr 08:22, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. An article for every eclipse sounds like a good idea to me. They're all notable, and unique. If an article on one such eclipse doesn't contain enough unique information, that doesn't mean that it can't contain enough unique information. We don't delete stubs just because they're stubs... this is a wiki. Expansion is the way of the future. Fieari 08:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge. i think we should merge this. dont really think its worth keeping that much craigosbourne 10:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep I agree that most total eclipses are worthy of an article. I'd like to see someone take on creating articles about other major ones. How that critera would be determined is a something that would have to be decided.Davidpdx 10:49, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep We have the space, and it's not harming anyone. Samy Merchi (Talk) 11:51, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - Per Brian. --lightdarkness (talk) 12:58, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per BD Mills G Clark 15:55, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep notability issues aside, there is certainly precident for elaborating on the details of a specific event outside of the primary article for the class of events. This is why the {{main}} template exists. -Harmil 16:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep A list that links to every solar eclipse article would be good, but instead of deleting this one as only one of a few articles on solar eclipses, how about starting to write articles on other solar eclipses. Stating that all of the articles will read the same is not a viable argument, because you could similarly argue that we shouldn't have articles on chemical elements because they would all be very similar. To someone interested in the data, the slight differences are important and significant.
  • Speedy Keep Article is of a notable news event, is linked to from the Main Page, and too large to merge.--Ted-m 17:51, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Article describes a significant event. --Barfoos 19:22, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, but Delete & Merge later Obviously from the number of comments, this is still a popular article. Plus, it is still on the Main Page. However, later I don't believe that many people will look up this specific solar eclipse. Zreeon 19:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per Spiffy sperry Kirbytime 03:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. In future, any number of topics and issues (such as folklore, social movements) etc might be related to that event. IMHO, unless articles are rubbish, and assuming Wikipedia's servers aren't running out of electrons, deletions should be very rare. I found the article interesting and intend to link to it on my own site (and I'm not an astronomer). Alpheus 04:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. It's an event that deserves an article. Tristanb 04:49, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. All total eclipses are rare and significant enough to be notable. The only sense in which this is "recentism" is that events that have occured since Wikipedia was begun are able to have more data included since data is more readily available while the event is taking place and shortly thereafter. (see also articles on recent olympics as opposed to earlier olympics). If more data can be found on previous total eclipses, those eclipses should also have articles written based on that data. Tyler 06:35, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. It is strange to call this "recentism" as the article has been there since April 8, 2005. Maybe "futurism"? LambiamTalk 11:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep . Kids and students may need to write some paper about this particular eclipse, especially if they live in the mentioned countries. And what if something happens, such as a colective suicide, and is later related to this event? It wouldn't be the first time such thing happens. I don't understand this deletion fury of some. Lets make Wikipedia the most complete encyclopedia ever. Pedro.Guero 16:53, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. This is a significant event which happened recently. Mdwav 1:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC+8)
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.
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