Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abaaley

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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 06:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Abaaley

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Here, in the Somali placename parade, we come across a different problem: there's a town about at the coordinates given, but geonames says that its name is "Berdale", which we claim is a district in Bay, which is untrue: it's clearly a small city with its own airstrip. Berdale is clearly a valid name, but it's also extremely common, and there are two listed in Hiiraan. There's an "Aborey", which both geonames and the aerials agree upon, but it's nowhere near the coordinates given. I feel a generous application of WP:TNT is in order in straightening this out. Mangoe (talk) 14:02, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2018 March 24. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 14:24, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Somalia-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 00:04, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 00:04, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, hi Mangoe, this is one of around 25 afds that you and Hut 8.5 have put up relating to Somali non-localities in the last week or so, they look pretty uncontroversial, just wondering why you didn't prod them? or have they all been down that route before? Coolabahapple (talk) 00:12, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Some of them have provoked quite a bit of discussion and some dissenting opinions, e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xabasha Wacle, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maqaxdameer. Some have even been closed as no consensus, e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uunsi, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daharro. Given that I'm not sure that these are suitable for PROD. Hut 8.5 00:45, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ok, thanks. Coolabahapple (talk) 18:22, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Spurious "town" deletions have proven to be controversial on the past, with the guidelines being largely ignored in favor of "every dot is sacred" keeps. The other issue is that the scraping that appears to be the source of this was quite indiscriminate, and while a lot of these "towns" appear to be simply mislabelled "localities", not all are, and there are quite a few naming issues. Early on I might have prodded all the "towns which are really localities" cases had I been assured that I wouldn't have to do it all over again on a one-by-one basis, but I think we've gotten past that point now. Mangoe (talk) 14:47, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not There. z'Marquis d'L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 19:21, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.