Talk:Snowzilla (snowman)

Image

There are plenty of images of snowzilla on flickr that could potentially be added to this article. I'd add one were it not for my webfilter. (maybe if I remember to come back later. Feel free to beat me to it.) -Verdatum (talk) 19:41, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Notability

This subject is as notable as any other page on Wikipedia. It concerns an actual event (series of events) which captured national attention for four years, generated a website with thousands of visitors, and is a buzzword for local-government meddling. I will remove the notability cite and add another reference. Raymondwinn (talk) 10:16, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I understand that it really happened, there's a website, and it might even be well known around Anchorage. My concern is not that the article was inadequately referenced, but rather that a big snow man in some guy's yard is just not worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. Even if he built it several years in a row, and it was in the local paper, and the city made him stop. On the references, the Charlotte Observer article appears to have just been a reprint from the Anchorage Daily News, the boston.com link is broken and a search of that site reveals nothing about Snowzilla, and the final link is from the Snowzilla website, which is a bit of self-promotion. I won't propose it for deletion at this point, but it would be nice to see more neutral sources, and some indication of why this is important enough for inclusion in an encyclopedia. Dunncon13 (talk) 16:57, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Anchorage is not some subsistence village out in the sticks, it is a big city. If Snowzilla is widely known in a city with a population of 300,000, then it's notable. 66.230.110.39 (talk) 18:40, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Location

Something totally bizarre is that Google Street View actually shows a nearby alley, rather than the street, for most of the block where Billy Ray Powers lives. It appears to be an alley in the opposite direction from his house. I almost want to believe that it was deliberate.RadioKAOS (talk) 12:33, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Snow Storm, USA 2016

A heavy snow fall event on 22.-23. Jan. 2016 on east coast states of USA has been named Snowzilla, after 2nd in a readers vote in Washington Post. http://orf.at/stories/2320472/2320474/ "Snowzilla" sorgt für Chaos an US-Ostküste, orf.at 23.1.2016 --Helium4 (talk) 09:46, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

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