Talk:Range 12 Fire

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Please do not delete

User:SounderBruce, I'm curious as to why you felt it necessary to slap a huge deletion banner on the top of Range 12 Fire, less than two hours after I created the article. I'm finding more reliable sources, and I suppose we could move it over to the "Draft:" namespace (or my userspace), but I would prefer to collaborate with others who spend a lot of time on the Washington wildfire articles. They may not be interested until it is "out of draft". For the record, I found an academic paper and a US Government web page that both consider the fire notable:

• Ba, Rui; Song, Weiguo; Li, Xiaolian; Xie, Zixi; Lo, Siuming (2019-02-06). "Integration of Multiple Spectral Indices and a Neural Network for Burned Area Mapping Based on MODIS Data". Remote Sensing. 11 (3): 326. doi:10.3390/rs11030326. ISSN 2072-4292.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
• "Monitoring Impacts to Rare Plant Populations from Range 12 Fire - UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON". portal.nifa.usda.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-21.

It would be nice to not have potential editors dissuaded from helping by the enormous banner you placed on the article. -- RobLa (talk) 03:48, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

@RobLa: It needs to be incubated in draftspace, then. The culling of new articles that don't meet notability standards is normal practice due to the amount of stubs that sit abandoned to rot for years, so some preventative measures are necessary. SounderBruce 03:58, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Nuclear disaster?

I didn't realize that the locals (and others) were worried about a nuclear disaster, but I suppose it makes sense:

• "To Prevent a Nuclear Disaster, Washington Firefighters Burned a Whole Mountain". Vice (magazine). Retrieved 2022-04-21.

...and quoting the source (Vice (magazine)): "The raging inferno, called the Range 12 Fire, threatened to summit Washington's Rattlesnake Mountain, and creep down the other side toward the Hanford Nuclear Site, an aging nuclear production complex that sits along the Columbia River." Granted, the locals just call it the "Rattlesnake Hills" or "Rattlesnake Ridge" (which I know because I lived in the area in my youth). The ridge extends to Union Gap, Washington, but the high point of the ridge I guess is called "Rattlesnake Mountain". Regardless, it would seem as though both the Yakima and Tri-Cities news stations covered it, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Spokane television stations covered it in depth. It was a big deal for Eastern Washington. -- RobLa (talk) 04:19, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Adding this to my list of sources about the fire. -- RobLa (talk) 04:19, 21 April 2022 (UTC)