Talk:North Central Indiana-Michigan Tornado Outbreak

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[edit] Total number of tornadoes should be 12

  • Two more tornadoes touched down that day, one south of Saginaw, one just east. Both came from the same supercell. AStudent 04:50, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


*http://www.msu.edu/~fujita/tornado/lansing/011024/index.html

[edit] Expert review

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The result was: Merge into Tornadoes of 2001. --B. Wolterding 17:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

This review has been announced on the talk page of WikiProject Severe weather. Comments should be added on this page, below.

As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether this topic is notable enough to have its own article. The article has been tagged with notability concerns ("importance" tag) since November 2006. Actually, to me it seems to contain mainly news coverage, which should not be on Wikipedia per WP:NOT#NEWS. But I don't know about your general standards for these events. Can you tell me whether the article should be kept, discarded, or merged somewhere else?

Your opinions are welcome; please add your comments below. --B. Wolterding 16:03, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

I can't remember if it's a written policy, but the guidelines I've always used for article notability are if the tornado article meets one of the following criteria:
  1. Killed 3 or more people
  2. Caused $100 million USD in damage
  3. Was an outbreak of 50 or more tornadoes
  4. Was an F5 or EF5
  5. Was notable for some other reason (hitting major downtown area, for example)
We have had articles which didnt meet this in the past, but as the List of tornadoes by year grows, these can be merged into the year's tornado page. This is a borderline case, 25 dollars, 2 dead and $25 million in damage, not insignificant. However, with a real lack of justification for the article to exist separately, I would agree with a liberal merge into Tornadoes of 2001, keeping as much notable information as possible. I have been working on that article on and off for a few months, so I will take out any further info I believe should be cut. -RunningOnBrains 05:13, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
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