Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wye weather station

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The result was delete. Sandstein 19:12, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wye weather station[edit]

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Contested prod. There have been two merge requests for this article as the content is not notable for a standalone. However, it is not worth merging as the place no longer exists - it was last mentioned by the Met Office in 2000, but there are no sources on when it ceased existing. Possibly when Wye College (the presumed owners from given co-ordinates) was vacated around 2009. There is only one source for the station, and that is the Met Office who simply provide some data from the station. The data itself may be of some use in a local article, but the weather station is not. If there were more verifiable information about it, then that piece of information could be included in the relevant article - such as saying that "Wye College had a weather station from 1912 to 2009", but we don't have that information, and any supposition would be original research. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 13:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Arrangements like this where educational institutions, private individuals etc have been able to submit their weather observations to form part of the climatological record have existed for years and relatively informal. There are instuctions here on how to do it today. There would have to be special reasons for an individual station to be notable, for example because it had played a significant part in climate recording over a very long period. --AJHingston (talk) 14:21, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:43, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:44, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and merge: merge climate table into Wye, Kent article. No reason for this article to exist separate the town's article, and it would stand as an implausible redirect. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 15:06, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and AJHingston. Not too keen on a merge. A village does not need weather stats. Weather stats should only be used for a much larger geographical area. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 19:56, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The fact that the Met office records its data doesn't make it of note. No real need to merge the weather data unless Wye, Kent has a notable microclimate outwith the norms of the larger Kent region. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 18:46, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge (but do not keep a redirect). Not every village has a weather station. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:40, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge or Delete - fleeting references to it but not enough for its own article. Simply south...... going on editing sprees for just 6 years (as of 28/03/2006) 22:07, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. If anything is merged, then the article's history and a redirect must be maintained , please see WP:MAD. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:03, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There's no threshold of originality here, any editor can present the source data in a table in the target article without the need for a copy and paste from the source article. As such an equivalent to a merge could be achieved without requiring a redirect/history retention. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 05:17, 10 April 2012 (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.