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Kurki Mokhtar Coffee Cooperative

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Clear failure of WP:GEOLAND as this is not about a village but instead about a coffee-house belonging to someone called Kukri Mokhtar ("co-operative" is an apparent mistranslation by the article-creator, machine translation renders this as "Kurki Mokhtar coffee house").

The Iranian census gathers data according to abadi, which are rural localities that can include cafes, factories, bridges, farms, pumps, dams, mines and a range of other features found in the Iranian countryside, that do not even need to actually ever have been populated. Being listed as an abadi is therefore not a form of legal recognition conferred on a populated settlement.

As explained further at Wikipedia:ABADI#What can be a village in Iran?, for a location to become officially a village in Iran it must at least have a population of 100 people and 20 families. There are other requirements, but this is a numerical one allowing easy assessment, and it is clear that with 39 people this location would not meet it.

This page was mass-created in violation of WP:MASSCREATE (which was in force in at the time) by Carlossuarez46. On the same day he created this article, he created at least 200 other articles. I say "at least" because a significant number will since have been deleted and not included in this count.

This was deprodded in 2022 with the comment "decline prod. Appears to meet WP:GEOLAND as a populated, legally recognized place, per the presence of a Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran reference in the article.". However, abadi such as this are explicitly excluded from WP:GEOLAND and this therefore is not a valid rationale to keep the article.

Please see my essay WP:ABADI for more examples of articles like this which have been deleted. FOARP (talk) 15:19, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

• Note: this discussion has been included in the AfD sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Iran. FOARP (talk) 15:19, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
• Delete I didn’t realise we still had some of this junk from Carlos Suarez lying around. Mccapra (talk) 16:55, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

  There's still absolutely loads of it. I've been PRODing a lot of it but this was was already prodded so it has to go to AFD. I estimate there's another 4000 articles at least that are about places that aren't likely to be villages. FOARP (talk) 17:42, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

  Case in point: Traffic Police Station. FOARP (talk) 18:01, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

• Delete as complete drivel. Only a few thousand more to go! Geschichte (talk) 05:36, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
• Delete - If we remove the "village" hoax, we're left with a coffeehouse with no sources to meet WP:NCORP. –dlthewave ☎ 14:49, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

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