Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solar eclipse of March 14, 1801

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The result was Keep one, redirect rest. Redirecting all to century-based lists, except Solar eclipse of October 19, 1865. RL0919 (talk) 21:05, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Solar eclipse of March 14, 1801[edit]

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Wikipedia is not an astronomical database or a catalogue. All of these partial solar eclipses merely happen to have occurred, but it is unlikely they are anything but WP:ROTM; and given how all of these occurred over mostly entirely unpopulated places, back in a time when this kind of data probably wasn't readily available (and who in his sane mind in the 19th century would have gone to Antarctica to observe a partial eclipse when such solar eclipses rather often, all across the globe?) it's unlikely any WP:SIGCOV, contemporary or otherwise, exists for any of these. As such delete for failing WP:NOT; or redirect to the appropriate list (but I'm not even sure whether those lists are appropriate, to begin with). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 16:19, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Astronomy-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:39, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica, and South America. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 17:14, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Can these be merged or redirected to lists? I believe we generally have lists of solar eclipses by date range. It would be absurd for Wikipedia to have a separate article on every solar eclipse that has happened in the past few centuries, since it is merely a matter of calculation to determine when and where all of them occurred. I would at least restrict such articles to solar eclipses that were noted in the records of contemporary observers. BD2412 T 20:24, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As I point out, there are lists, but the lists are, like these articles themselves, very much just a mirror of the NASA catalogue. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:12, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect all but Solar eclipse of October 19, 1865 to List of solar eclipses in the 19th century or List of solar eclipses in the 20th century, as appropriate. There is a long history of eclipse expeditions to places where they were readily viewable, but most of these appear to fail that criteria. There are records for the Solar eclipse of October 19, 1865, so that should be retained. The Solar eclipse of October 19, 1808 article is already a redirect. Praemonitus (talk) 14:02, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Praemonitus: Can you provide secondary sources which document first-hand records of the 1865 eclipse? –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 02:57, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@LaundryPizza03: [1][2][3][4][5] Praemonitus (talk) 13:03, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect all except the 1865 one, per above. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 21:49, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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