Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2019–2020 United States flu season

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) b uidhe 11:21, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2019–2020 United States flu season[edit]

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WP:NOTNEWS, WP:INDISCRIMINATE, etc. If this becomes notable, we can create the article at that time. Natureium (talk) 22:14, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. DannyS712 (talk) 22:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. DannyS712 (talk) 22:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

For context, there's some precedent in 2012–2013 flu season and 2017–2018 United States flu season, but I'm not sure that's enough, since there are no articles for other years, and the ones for those years should perhaps be merged elsewhere. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:56, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or Merge: When I put this up I was thinking that this article would be an interesting contrast to the coronavirus pandemic which was just getting started in the US. I also didn't realize there wasn't a similar article for every year. But maybe you are right, and if each of the articles about each year's flu season is not too long, it would be better to merge them into one article called "Seasonal flu in the United States" or somehing like that. However, I do not think it should be deleted completely. DaringDonna (talk) 09:19, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment my only worry with this article is that it may be used to pedle misinformation about COVID-19, I believe that some of the early conspiracy theories (or similar attempts at misinformation) in the united states, focused on the novel caronovirus being less deadly then the common flu. But the article could still be noteworthy depending on this years impact. Epluribusunumyall (talk) 23:30, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:03, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to address Epluribusunumyall's comment above. Because of the catastrophic nature of the coronavirus pandemic--as of this writing over 100,000 people in the US have died from this deadly virus--it is important that people be able to compare this pandemic with the 2019-2020 flu season, which, even though it was considered a bad year for seasonal flu, only killed a tiny fraction of what COVID has, and tragically will. This information should be easily available to anyone who has such a question or concern. DaringDonna (talk) 20:20, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep meets GNG. From what it looks, the Flu season was unusually bad and credible sources exist for it. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 12:10, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:38, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep reliable sources exist and the topic would seem as notable as e.g. hurricane seasons, for which we have articles 209.171.88.174 (talk) 14:34, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: meets GNG per review of available sources. A notable public health event and of sufficient interest to the readers. K.e.coffman (talk) 02:47, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It does meet WP:GNG and it is notable, especially in context of other pandemics. My very best wishes (talk) 17:56, 29 May 2020 (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.