Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/September 2013 New Haven Line Power Outage
Before this article was created, I was thinking that a spin-out might be a reasonable way to resolve Talk:New Haven Line#September 2013 electric failure|the debate on the talk page. I'm not really convinced this is notable at all, but having it spun out into a side article is certainly preferable to putting this level of technical detail in the main article. To do so would be  and . Compare, for example, the coverage we have of an earlier event which inflicted a similar scale outage: ''The Great Blizzard of 1888 blocked the rail line in Westport, between the Saugatuck and Green's Farms stations. It took eight days to restore service, as snow was dug out by hand.''. That's all we say about that. Why should this event require anything more than a similar two-sentence mention? Railroads are constantly having technical problems. Power outages. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/nyregion/fire-disrupts-metro-north-service-out-of-grand-central.html Fires. Derailments. Crashes. Not every one is so notable that it requires this level of detailed coverage in an encyclopedia. But, as I said, if we are going to cover it, at least don't clutter up the (already overly detailed) main article. I have no particular objection to a redirect, but given that it's an unlikely search term, I can't argue that it's necessary. Certainly, merging this back into the main article would be inappropriate
— User:RoySmith, 14:48, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:UNDUE||WP:RECENTISM (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)