Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tornadocane

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 Keep. Editors should continue the discussions to improve and/ or merge the article on the article talkpage and/or be WP:BOLD. JERRY ^talk _contribs 03:00, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tornadocane

I'm proposing this article's deletion because a similar article, landphoon, was deleted in August despite having seven unique sources, while this term has exactly one. In short, it's not encyclopedaic since one person appears to have made up the term in 1999, it does not exist in the glossary of meteorology, and (unlike landphoon) no one else I know has ever used the term (I'm a meteorologist). Thegreatdr (talk) 16:37, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The term is unofficial, and per the deletion of landphoon. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:40, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral :I did some editing on that article yesterday to transform it from a single event article to a more general one describing the process and adding the 2003 case. I saw that it was not related to many other articles but I was not aware that anybody was contemplating removing it. Personally, I don't care one way or another about the removal but I would not have lost time on editing if I had known. However, I want to make the point that since there was info in the deleted article called landphoon, it seems to me that there might be enough material in combining the two articles to make an encyclopedic article OR transfert the info into the tornado, supercell or Mesoscale Convective System articles. Even if the terms are not "widely known", the feature is interesting. Pierre cb (talk) 18:57, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - Into supercell. The article mentions that it is most closely related to a supercell. The information would be best suited there. Jd027^chat 23:23, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge - with tornado , otherwise delete --B.C ^{say what ?} 00:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This article is about two specific rare cases, similar to tornado outbreak articles. It is related strongly to a supercell, but this article is about the event, not a meterological phenomenon. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 02:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Even when it is unofficial, this term refers to a specific and rare kind of storm system, which is not properly described just by the term supercell. This is a recently discovered and not yet well researched event, so, it explains why it does not appear in the official glossary of meteorology. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.40.10.248 (talk) 00:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep- per arguments of 196.40.10.248. Also, the term has wide spread usage when googled.Rigby27 (talk) 16:22, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the term is not found in the professional literature. Wikipedia is not a repository of things you made up one day. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 05:32, 15 February 2008 (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.