Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2024 alleged Paris blackout

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The result was delete‎. RL0919 (talk) 16:36, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2024 alleged Paris blackout

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This is a non-notable internet phenomenon/hoax. The blackout didn't happen (as the factchecking references attest) so all we are left with is a number of non-WP:RS sites and YouTube making bizarre claims that failed to reach WP:SIGCOV. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 16:06, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, Christianity, Olympics, Internet, and France. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:30, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
delete nonnotable non-event with no expecxted sustained notability. --Altenmann >talk 17:53, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- On the contraire, since it was during the Olympics and in Paris, no less, people will remember this.Jeanette the Transbian Martin (dime?) 00:00 24 August, 2024 (UTC}
delete seems to be just some random internet hoax with no significant and respectable sources Pothos144 (talk) 20:53, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- There are articles here about other hoaxes, and Reuters and Fox are respectable sources.Jeanette Your Favorite lover Martin (dime?) 00:00 24 August, 2024 (UTC}
Delete If this happened EDF would've known and had statements about it immediately, and it would've been worldwide breaking news. Probably from the same oddball YouTube fandom that thinks anytime color bars appear on a channel it's a signal intrusion, along with Christofacist trash like source #5 (read WP:YOUTUBE @JeanetteMartin:); learn news literacy and about off buttons. Nate • (chatter) 21:20, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Nevertheless, Fox and Reuters and MSNBC, I believe (MSNBC), covered it so regardless that the EDF did not, its still a notable event. Also, look at my background. I am a transgender woman who has been here editing for 21 years. Nothing further from some of these You Tube right wing channels (although I am myself a Christian). Jeanette Mami Sexy Martin (dime?) 00:00 24 August, 2024 (UTC}
  - Comment Nah, no mainstream sources, no article. This is fanfiction that if it were on a kid's channel article would get a hoax block, and even if there were outages, they were after midnight, mostly unnoticed, and short-lived, and likely standard overnight maintenance. Last time I checked, religious spirits have no experience controlling a power grid. Nate • (chatter) 18:37, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with 2024 Summer Olympics: could be a brief mention near the bottom of the article. Interesting piece of folklore around the event, but nothing notable by itself. Oaktree b (talk) 22:39, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- This is the preferred outcome.Jeanette Redirect me! Martin (dime?) 00:00 24 August, 2024 (UTC}
Delete nonnotable non-event. RJFJR (talk) 19:29, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Bastun and RJFJR. It’s also totally made up in one day. Placing it in a well-written article will rot it. We are not Snopes or such fact-checking sure. We have standards. Bearian (talk) 03:45, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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