Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2019 Gabriola Island crash
per . While it's true that the question of whether this will have lasting significance or not has not been definitively answered as of just two days later, it's putting the cart before the house to say that fact justifies a keep — we need to have landed on the ''affirmative'' side of that question ''before'' an article becomes justified at all. It's not our role to indiscriminately maintain an article about every plane crash that happens at all — we keep articles about ''significant'' plane crashes that have enduring impact, and twin-engine crashes rarely if ever reach the necessary level of importance. The fact that some sources exist is not a -based exemption from having to meet the significance test, either, because initial news reportage of the crash will ''always'' exist for ''every'' plane crash whether it's of enduring significance or not — so to make this notable enough for an encyclopedia, what needs to be shown is not "sources exist", but "the sources are already demonstrating a reason why this is of ''enduring importance''", and these sources are not showing that. Is it sad, yes, but Wikipedia is not a memorial site. We don't even have a standalone article about the twin-engine Cessna crash that killed Jim Prentice, but just write about it ''in'' Prentice's ''biographical'' article — so the fact that the deceased pilot had a notable ''grandfather'' hardly makes this ''more'' notable than that
— User:Bearcat, 18:35, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTNEWS||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)