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Afrikaans exonyms

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Indiscriminate unreferenced list of proper names, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Other such articles have recently been deleted, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French exonyms. toweli (talk) 11:06, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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List of Latvian exonyms

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Indiscriminate unreferenced list of proper names, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Other such articles have recently been deleted, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French exonyms. toweli (talk) 10:59, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Kagarama

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This possibly passes WP:NGEO but would be far better servied merged inside Kicukiro District due to lack of sourcing or possibility to expand prose here. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 12:34, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Global society (for sustainable development)

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Is original research and an WP:ESSAY. Goldsztajn (talk) 06:48, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Straightforwardly per nom. Reywas92^Talk 13:32, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Clearly an essay and not an article. Pichpich (talk) 21:42, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination, a well-intentioned essay with lots of WP:SYNTHESIS in addition to the original research, and overall adds little to the existing Sustainable development. Wikishovel (talk) 22:28, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Limentra di Sambuca

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Unsourced stub about a minor Italian river. Sources seem to exist either as trivial mentions or database entries with name and coordinates, as described as failing wp:NATFEAT. I can maybe see a merge into Reno (river), but that article is also essentially unreferenced. Lenny Marks (talk) 20:57, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I have also nominated the following article: Limentra orientale (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) as a bundled nomination, as it is was creted by the same Wikipedian and is essentially in the same exact circumstances as this article, but is about a different tributary of the same river. Neither one appears to be notable enough for its own page. --Lenny Marks (talk) 21:12, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Sonmati

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I couldn't find sources to verify this information Boleyn (talk) 18:42, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Alockdia

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Disputed draftification. Fails WP:GNG and geographic criteria 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:43, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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at this point, delete User is going through and using some hidden source to make a bunch of unverifiable stubs. It's bad enough when a known-to-be-unreliable source is used, but we have no idea here and the onus shouldn't be on us to figure out what source was used. Settlements are so thick on the ground in this region that GMaps is useless, notwithstanding the language issue. Mangoe (talk) 10:35, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Mangoe: Yes it's a stub, but hidden source and unverifiable? The first sentence of the cited Daily Sun article says (admittedly using a transliteration without the "c"): "... Alokdia village in Kalidah union of Feni Sadar Upazila ...". That supports the entire body of the stub. The infobox contains coordinates, which are not in the newspaper article, but Google Maps show them to be in the middle of a pair of built-up area blobs bounded by Alockdia Mastar Para Link Rd and Alockdia Rd, surrounded by Alokdia Bitun Nur Jame Masjid, Alockdia Kazi Bari Jameh Masjid, Alockdia Baitul Aman Jame Masjid, and Alockdia Kendrio Jame Masjid, Alockdia Forkania Moktob, Alockdia Pharma and Departmental store, and Mannan bhuiyan Market, Alockdia (or Alockdia Sporting Club, according to the sign), so calling the map "useless" rings false. The 2011 Bangladeshi census confirms that Alokdia is a village in the stated union, upazila, and district, and says its population at that time was 2,769. --Worldbruce (talk) 15:45, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
comment One can debate whether WP:5P1's "Wikipedia combines many features of ... and gazetteers" and WP:GEOLAND's "presumed to be notable" mean that verifiable, legally recognized villages should be kept, which WP:PLACEOUTCOMES says they typically are, but the rationales for deletion given so far are unconvincing. --Worldbruce (talk) 15:50, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bhottopara

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Disputed draftification. WP:GNG failure. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:45, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment As I understand WP:NGEO as Legally recognized settlements are considered notable. This seems to be a recognized village.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 12:10, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
at this point, delete It may be a village, it may be a neighborhood; who knows? User is going through and using some hidden source to make a bunch of unverifiable stubs. It's bad enough when a known-to-be-unreliable source is used, but we have no idea here and the onus shouldn't be on us to figure out what source was used. Mangoe (talk) 10:32, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Mangoe: "Who knows?" Well, the original cited source says Bhattapara (admittedly a different transliteration) is a village. So does the source Vinegarymass911 added. Moreover, the 2011 Bangladeshi census says Bhat Para (yes, a third transliteration - welcome to the inconvenient world of Bengali names) is a village in Madhnagar Union of what was then Natore Sadar Upazila (since 2013 in Naldanga Upazila) with a population of 595. The coordinates make sense, smack in the middle of a built-up blob in Google Maps, next to Bhattopara Primary School (transliteration #4) and down the street from Bhattapara Central Mosque. They're within 1 second in each direction of the coordinates for the Bhattapara in Rajshahi Division in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Geographic Names Server. So there's little question that it's a village, a legally recognized populated place. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:47, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
comment I don't believe these trivial "xxx is a village" articles are a net benefit to the encyclopedia. People often say we should keep them because Wikipedia is, among other things, a gazetteer. Gazetteers, however, are mostly a list of one-sentence descriptions, they don't have a separate page or article about every entry. There are about 1,500 villages in Natore District. Fortunately there are not (yet) articles for many of them in Wikipedia. Is there any appetite for merging/redirecting this and other Category:Villages in Natore District into a new "List of villages in Natore District" article that would serve the purpose of a gazetteer without creating thousands of stubs? --Worldbruce (talk) 17:38, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gillespie Cave

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Non notable cave, has no sources. Kingsmasher678 (talk) 04:35, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Smyrna, Decatur County, Indiana

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A 4tgh class post office, not a town. There's almost nothing there, and what little there is was mostly built in the 1950s. Mangoe (talk) 13:54, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there something wrong with being built in the 1950's? Of the "almost nothing", does that indicate there is actually something there? — Maile (talk) 14:16, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are two modern houses and one older, with no obvious relationship to each other. Three houses vaguely near each other is not a town, and in any case the name of the spot is much older. Mangoe (talk) 12:42, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Pinhook, Decatur County, Indiana

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A "nothing there" spot about which I can only find the barest passing reference in one of those old county histories. Mangoe (talk) 11:49, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Absolutely zero information found, name just miraculously appears on USGS topo maps in 1958: [1] without any apparent infrastructure. Nothing but a couple rural homes today. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 22:00, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hatay, Konak

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Tagged unsourced in 2009 and does not seem to be notable. Konak article exists so maybe this one not needed Chidgk1 (talk) 16:46, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy keep: See [2], [3] for instance, but even without these, it should be speedily kept based on WP:NTOWN. TheJoyfulTentmaker (talk) 01:19, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So is ‘’semt’’ still a legally recognized subdivision of “ilçe”?Chidgk1 (talk) 05:22, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Definition of a "semt" can be informal, but Hatay in İzmir as a city center is well-recognized even if it does not have official boundaries. The Konak municipality has a center there, public transit stations, events, etc... Within the "semt", there are lots of officially recognized "mahalle"s, each of which can have their own articles, according to WP:NTOWN. TheJoyfulTentmaker (talk) 06:57, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So I can create an article about any “mahalle” I like without any sources at all? Chidgk1 (talk) 07:20, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Itascatown, Howland Island

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This article's history contains slow-moving reversals of redirects by an anonymous editor. The text is copied word-by-word from the Howland Island, lacking context here and thus creating a WP:CFORK much worse than the original (note the "on the island" in the very first sentence without identification of the island). The anonymous comment match the actions in maturity ("Mommy I want to do color flags please?", [4]). IMHO the article should be replaced by a Redirect to Howland Island. WP:PROD was reverted by an anonymous editor, so escalating to establish consensus so repeated rollbacks will become legit. Викидим (talk) 02:02, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy redirect This very obviously does not need to be a separate page from or duplicative to Howland Island#Itascatown (1935–42). Meyerton, Baker Island should also be merged to Baker Island. Reywas92^Talk 20:52, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ochicha

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I couldn't find sources to verify that this meets WP:NPLACE/WP:GNG. Boleyn (talk) 18:11, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: Passes WP:NPLACE based on [5] and [6]. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 00:00, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Would have voted a ‘keep’ but the article contains no citation or reference. Needs to be developed and improved. Mevoelo (talk) 02:53, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete : No reliable source about this village. Just fails WP:GEOLAND.--Gabriel (……?) 16:28, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Üçköprü

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This confluence is not significant in itself as the river is small - no objection to merging into the river article Chidgk1 (talk) 17:11, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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McCoy, Indiana

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Another rail point that apparently someone hoped would become a town, but "platted" does not inevitably lead to "constructed", and there's no sign there was ever anything other than station that apparently held the first post office. McCoy is a common name so lots of false hits, exacerbated by a "Lake McCoy" to the northeast, which of late seems to have been the subject of local political problems which paywalls unfortunately block my knowledge of. Mangoe (talk) 03:31, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Letts Corner, Indiana

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This is a bit of a puzzle, because the sources are contradictory as to whether this and Letts are the same place or not. The history of the county which is referred to by both articles, for example, says "As the Letts Corner State Bank has played an important part in the life of our subject, it may be of interest to note a few facts regarding this well known business institution," but the very next sentence begins, " The Letts State Bank was organized by Leroy A. Eckhart[.]" There's mention of a high school which is referred to various as the Letts high school and the Letts Corner high school— unless they are two institutions, which seems quite unlikely considering their proximity. The railroad station was always in Letts; the supposed location of Letts Corner shows no rail service. My inclination is to treat them as a single place but if someone can find something that clears this up otherwise that would be a big help. Mangoe (talk) 22:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment - Decatur County: Interim Report, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 1999. p. 85 writes "The village of Letts was laid out in September of 1882 by Joab Stout and others . It is situated in an area of rich farm land , and has therefore been a center for grain exportation . In 1868 Allen W. Letts built a store on what is now SR 3. The settlement that sprang up around this store was known as Lett's Corner . [...] After the completion of the Vernon , Greensburg & Rushville Railroad to the east of Letts Corner in 1880, the village grew in the direction of the tracks and was renamed simply Letts ." So arguably the two articles should be merged. --Soman (talk) 23:16, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is quite helpful. Thanks for finding it. Mangoe (talk) 01:37, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kay-Anlog, Calamba

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Fails notability WP:GEOLAND, Barangays are not considered being notable. Please see here the similar deletion (which is converted the redirect), for more details. TentingZones1 (talk) 08:37, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom. HueMan1 (talk) 21:30, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to Calamba,_Laguna#Barangays per WP:ATD --Lenticel ^(talk) 02:05, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Some other deletion discussions mostly were kept. This article is in good shape and has a lot of information, hence keep. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 11:26, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of urban areas in Scotland

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Unreferenced (sources are mentioned but not cited anywhere) and is essentially an unnecessary spin-off of List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, using same methodology as the Settlements list (the figures differ slightly due to taking the figures from different years). De-prodded by editor who possibly didn't realise that the above article contains sections for both Localities and multi-locality Settlements, i.e urban areas. Crowsus (talk) 17:55, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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OK probably merge with List of towns and cities in Scotland by population#Settlements, I indeed hadn't noticed that section. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:06, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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