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The result was redirect to List of earthquakes in 2021#December. The keep !votes do not make any policy-based arguments for why this would be notable that counter those against keeping a standalone article, which would bring us to delete. However, as valid search term, and as Mikenorton pointed out, there is more information at List_of_earthquakes_in_2021#December and I have redirected both articles there. Star Mississippi 16:35, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2021 Timor Leste earthquake[edit]

2021 Timor Leste earthquake (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Non-notable earthquake with little immediate impact and no likelihood of enduring effects, per WP:NOTNEWS and WP:EVENT Mikenorton (talk) 12:16, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related page because it describes the same event:

2021 Banda Sea earthquake (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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• Merge with Lospalos: While I agree that the NOTNEWS applies here, it may be worth keeping some of the informatioin per WP:PRESERVE as part of the Lospalos and/or East Timor articles JW 1961 ^Talk 12:29, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There's actually already slightly more information on the earthquake in List of earthquakes in 2021#December. The tectonic setting section was copied verbatim from the 1852 Banda Sea earthquake, so that already exists elsewhere on the project. Mikenorton (talk) 12:38, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Striking merge per Mikenorton and Dawnseekers reasoning Delete both articles JW 1961 ^Talk 13:39, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: Simply unnecessary, especially for an event that has just occurred. Deletion would only be painstaking and irrelevant. Dunutubble (talk) 16:29, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Not merging with Lospalos, as not more than a strong shaking was there. The earthquake was close to Indonesian Maopora island. Two houses crashed on Indonesian Moa island, south of it. On Timor-Leste have been only a few houses minor damaged and a 10 km long earth fissure appeared in Suco Uailaha, 100 km west of Lospalos. J. Patrick Fischer (talk) 13:02, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete – Delete both articles because they are not necessary for an encyclopedia. Events of this size are a dime a dozen in that area. Dawnseeker2000 13:28, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment: I would disagree that they're necessarily a dime-a-dozen. Pretty much everything else on that list has its own article (and I know this is a very WP:WAXy argument, so I won't really construe it as an argument for keep), but here are the articles: 2021 Flores earthquake, 2019 North Maluku earthquake, 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami. Oddly the one on that list you linked without an article is the 2019 Banda Sea earthquake. I am not really making any great point here. snood1205 16:21, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, there are 56 earthquakes listed if you follow that link. Of these, just 11 have their own articles, although a few of the others are sufficiently notable that articles could be written. Most, however, just didn't have sufficient impact, much like the one we're discussing. Mikenorton (talk) 22:11, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:39, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Asia-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:39, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Retain of course, but the correct title is 2021 Banda Sea earthquake, because the epicenter was not in East Timor, but near Romang (island) in Indonesia. This earthquake was HUGE! 7.2 to 7.5 on the Richter scale. Two Houses collapsed! [1] It was felt as far away as Darwin! Really, this is a huge earthquake, 7+ is huge.Fulmard (talk) 20:15, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete – Impacts of this earthquake are not notable. The minor effects can be covered in the list of earthquakes in 2021 article. Not sure why a deletion discussion is needed when most editors in the WPEQ project would convert both articles into redirect. --Dora the Axe-plorer (explore the morgue) 23:08, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete – For the love of everything that is good can we PLEASE stop making articles out of new events without any sort of significance nor sufficient sources to prove it's significance in general. Moctiwiki (Moctalk with me) 00:27, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  It is notable, it is over 7 in the richter scale. It was huge!Fulmard (talk) 08:40, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Less Unless (talk) 13:13, 8 January 2022 (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.