Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piazzo

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 13:21, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable neighborhood in a Swiss municipality, article has existed for 10 years without any claim to notability and no additional sources of additional information to expand the article. Tobyc75 (talk) 12:16, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Switzerland-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:09, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 13:09, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. It does appear to be a recognised settlement. Separate villages, even if part of another municipality for administrative purposes, as opposed to simple neighbourhoods of other settlements, are generally considered to be notable per WP:GEOLAND. See WP:NPLACE. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:42, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think this falls under "Populated places without legal recognition". While it appears on a map and is populated, it has no specific governmental role or authority. On the website of the municipality of Brusio it's listed as 1 of 5 districts in the municipality. As far back as 1960 it was not a municipality, so it wouldn't qualify based on formerly being a legally recognized municipality. Additionally, I can't find any further information to expand the article beyond its current size.Tobyc75 (talk) 19:36, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • No, it doesn't, if you read the definition of that. Note that this also applies to most British villages or hamlets that are not parishes in their own right; however, they all have articles. A settlement does not have to have its own government or council to be a recognised populated place. It merely has to be recognised as an individual settlement. A settlement that is legally and/or administratively part of another municipality/parish/commune/whatever is still a recognised populated place. If we deleted all of the articles on villages that weren't actually administrative units in their own right we'd probably end up deleting half the articles on settlements on Wikipedia, which would certainly not benefit the project. We would also run into the problem that different countries have different administrative units in different sizes (e.g. Italy's comunes are generally considerably larger and cover more separate settlements than France's communes or England's parishes), which would result in bias for and against the inclusion of settlements in different countries. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:47, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. It appears to be a village. It is another matter, for wp:RM perhaps, whether this should be moved to a more specific title such as "Piazzo, Poschiavo, Grisons, Switzerland" or whatever. --Doncram (talk) 05:50, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, per all above, as this does appear to be a populated place. Ejgreen77 (talk) 12:55, 27 October 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.