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Tempo, Ontario

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The neighbourhood has little recognition in London, overshadowed by Masonville and White Oaks, which do not have articles of their own. In addition, there are limited sources available on the topic, and the article has not met the notability criteria for 17 years. Rushtheeditor (talk) 22:07, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

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Askow, Alberta

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Let me preface this by saying that there are very few scenarios in which I would want any geostub deleted, no matter how insignificant the place is. However, I do not think this community exists or has ever existed.

"Askow" does not show up in the Canadian Geographical Names Database as a current or historical name, and I can find no serious reference to it anywhere. Searching "Askow, Alberta" on Google maps takes you to a farmer's field, and quite interestingly, on 16 November 2024 this article was blanked by an IP and replaced with the text It does not Exist it is our field and has been for over 100 years. "Askow" does not appear to be in OpenStreetMap. Concise Place Names of Alberta (2006) mentions an "Askow River" (p.39, Google Books). This Substack post also mentions "the community of Askow" but it's from 2025 and this may ultimately be a result of this article's existence since 2006.

I'm not sure what happened here -- if anyone can find evidence to prove that there was ever a settlement here called Askow, even 100 years ago, I will withdraw this. In every other scenario, I can find at least a shred of evidence that a place existed at some point, but I'm totally baffled here. I'm hesitant to go so far as to call this a hoax, but I'm starting to wonder. MediaKyle (talk) 15:30, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - All I can find it that "Askow" is an Indigenous name for the Bow River. Nothing about it ever being a settlement. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:36, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Delete – Not even listed as a locality in Alberta's GNS or by StatCan either. Hwy43 (talk) 17:40, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Balychevo

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There is nothing at this location, not even ruins. The population of 0 in 2010 and 15 in 2002 is consistent with a former farm, for which the appropriate notability standard is WP:NBUILDING, which this fails.

The RU Wikipedia article claims that primary-source documents mentioned this place in 1632. This appears to be original research in a primary source, and as such cannot sustain notability. The different spelling ("Bolychevo") and existence of other villages with the same name casts doubt on whether this was the same place. Even if true, they only substantiate the existence of a single dwelling at the site in that year, not a substantial settlement. FOARP (talk) 10:14, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

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Kuzmino, Sudislavsky District, Kostroma Oblast

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This location is clearly just an individual farm. There is no record of anyone having ever actually lived here.

The RU wiki article includes a claim that one person lived here in 2008 but since there was no census in 2008 it is not clear why they believe this, and the source it was based on is not accessible for me. Even if it were shown that a single person lived there in 2008, this would not substantiate notability of the site.

Fails WP:NBUILDING, which is the appropriate notability standard for a single building. FOARP (talk) 10:01, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

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Razdolye, Kurchatovsky District, Kursk Oblast

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There is nothing at this location. There is also nothing for miles around that location. Whilst Google has a road marked here, it is not even clear that there is actually a road. There are not even ruins indicating that something used to be there. This therefore fails verification.

Even if the place exists, the population of 1 in 2010 and 1 in 2002 is consistent with a single building. The appropriate notability standard is WP:NBUILDING which this would - even if its existence could be proved - fail.

The RU Wiki article includes the claim that this place once had 60 people in it in 1979 but this is sourced to a 1981 map of the Soviet general staff hosted on a site that I cannot open (I get a 403 message) and which in any event is likely referring to a military camp, not a permanent settlement.

It is concerning that this article has been entirely padded out with irrelevant algorithmically-generated text. FOARP (talk) 09:18, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

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Ivanovka, Polevskoy Selsoviet, Kursky District, Kursk Oblast

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The location is clearly a single farm. The population of 1 in 2010 and 2 in 2002 is consistent with that. Nothing shows that there was ever a village or other substantial settlement at this location.

The appropriate notability standard for a farm is either WP:NCORP or WP:NBUILDING, both of which this clearly fails. FOARP (talk) 09:10, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

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Delete Rural homesteads are not notable just because they are counted as a "locality" in the census. Recommend a bulk deletion since User:Fram identified hundreds of places with single-digit populations. Reywas92^Talk 15:00, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Golyevka

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There is nothing at this location. There is also nothing with this name for miles around that I was able to find. The location is a lonely stand of trees next to a dirt road. There is no sign that anyone ever lived at this location - no houses nor ruins can be seen there.

Even if this place exists, it is, as the RU Wikipedia article describes, a "personal subsidiary farm", which is to say an individual farm. The reported population is also consistent with that. The appropriate notability standard for a farm is WP:NCORP or WP:NBUILDING which this palpably fails. Alternatively it was some kind of temporary structure or camp, but again this would not be notable.

The way this article is padded out with algorithmically-generated content is also concerning. FOARP (talk) 09:00, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

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List of largest cities by population in 2026

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The article is essentially a duplicate of List of largest cities with no justification to isolate 2026 figures as if its a particularly notable snapshot in time. orangesclub 🍊 05:50, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Delete per nom. -Herinalian (talk) 06:34, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
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* Delete+Some Salt Reverting edits 1082 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 06:49, 1 May 2026 (UTC) WP:SOCKSTRIKE. ~SG 5536B 00:37, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Delete - essentially duplicative, as noted by the nominator. Also very close to a WP:G12 speedy deletion, as the content is clearly cut and pasted from the single source: note the identical column names. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 07:47, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Oppose The list is diffrent from the one in List of largest cities and is a list provided by a different organization. Even the numbers vary a lot. Feather&Martin (talk) 12:07, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Delete Duplicative page is not helpful. Different numbers (city vs urban area, census vs. estimates, etc.) may be discussed in the existing article, not simply copied from a source to a new page. Reywas92^Talk 14:54, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Oppose deletion but can be merged to List of largest cities as a different source section. IAmMoreHandsome (talk) 19:52, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Delete per nom. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:12, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Alekseyevka, Selsoviet Artyukhovsky, Oktyabrsky District, Kursk Oblast

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Nothing is at the location in the article, which is an empty field. This casts doubt on the verifiability of the location.

Even if the location is simply wrong, the population given in the article and the corresponding RU Wikipedia article is consistent with an individual farm or building, not a village. There is no evidence that any village ever existed at this location.

The notability standard for individual farms/buildings is WP:NBUILDING or WP:NCORP, both of which are clearly failed here. FOARP (talk) 16:01, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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13 km

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This is a railway-station in a neighbourhood of the village of Topki. Whilst it had a status as a rural locality around which people would be counted for census-purposes, it does not appear to have ever been a separate settlement. This status was also abolished in 2025. FOARP (talk) 14:40, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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15 km, Kemerovo Oblast

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This is an abolished settlement, and indeed there is no evidence presented here or in the RU Wiki article that it was ever populated.

The location appears to be a railway station within the town of Topki, and as such falls under WP:NBUILDING, which it clearly fails. FOARP (talk) 14:35, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - fails NBUILD and WP:NTRAINSTATION. A massive thanks to all users that are tackling the thousands of articles similar to this one. A shame that it will take many more hours to delete them than it did to mass create them in the first place but it is what it is. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:23, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Kuak Hulu

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No sources for the town itself, all sources are about "2025 AI-generated cable car hoax". Seems to fail WP:NTOWN. Mariamnei (talk) 11:38, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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I will add the cites. JUST DO NOT DELETE THE PAGE. the draft is still unreviewwed RotatingPirateShip (talk) 15:25, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
It looks like it's in main space, not draft space. I vote draftify. SenshiSun (talk) 16:33, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Teplino

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This appears to be a small farm, not a village - that is what can be seen at the location provided, and the population of 1 is entirely consistent with that. There is no evidence that this was ever a substantial settlement.

The notability standard for an individual farm is WP:NCORP or WP:NBUILDING, both of which are clearly failed here. FOARP (talk) 10:29, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete Pages like this are why bulk creation of articles without approval is banned. One person living there is not an independently notable place, even if it has a name. Users should be encouraged to improve articles at the district level or something, not mass-producing pages on single homesteads and small neighborhoods. Reywas92^Talk 14:53, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Delete for non-notability. If all of the creators are the same, should an issue report be made? SenshiSun (talk) 16:38, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Nechalovo

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There is nothing at the location in the article. There is a single building a mile or so from it with this name. The population of 1 in 2002 and 0 in 2010 is entirely consistent with this being an individual building, not a substantial settlement of any kind.

The notability standard for individual buildings is WP:NBUILDING, which this does not pass. FOARP (talk) 10:25, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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Just for information; we have 466 such 1 person settlement articles, plus a further 581 with pop 2, 465 with pop 3, also 465 with pop 4, and 342 with pop 5. And a handful with pop 0 and no streets, like 15 km, Kemerovo Oblast. Fram (talk) 10:35, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete Pages like this are why bulk creation of articles without approval is banned. One person living there is not an independently notable place, even if it has a name. This is a farm down the road from Nikola, Ustyuzhensky District, Vologda Oblast, not its own community. Users should be encouraged to improve articles at the district level or something, not mass-producing pages on single homesteads and small neighborhoods. Reywas92^Talk 14:53, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Delete for non-notability. SenshiSun (talk) 16:38, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Delete per nom. There seems to be a lot more of these articles; I recommend these be bundled together in one singular discussion. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 23:33, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
I've several times in the past tried to bundle articles like this but practically every time people balk at doing what's necessary. The issue is that the sheer number of these articles means you would have to propose thousands to be deleted in one go.

The real issue is the WP:GEOLAND standard that creates an open door for mass-creating these articles at a rate of hundreds a day, but makes them very difficult to delete. FOARP (talk) 08:38, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Yepifanovskaya

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There is nothing at the location in the article, which is dense forest. There is a point on the map a few miles away with a similar name, but this is a single building. The population of 2 people, with no evidence that any more than this ever lived there, is consistent with this being a single building. The appropriate notability standard for a single building is WP:NBUILDING, which this palpably fails. FOARP (talk) 07:55, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete Pages like this are why bulk creation of articles without approval is banned. Two people living there is not an independently notable place, even if it has a name. Users should be encouraged to improve articles at the district level or something, not mass-producing pages on single homesteads and small neighborhoods. Reywas92^Talk 14:51, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Kochurovo

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There is nothing at the location in the article. The population of 2 stated in the article - and there is no evidence that any more people than this ever lived there - is consistent with a single building or temporary structure having been at the location at some point. The appropriate notability standard for a building is WP:NBUILDING, which this obviously fails. FOARP (talk) 07:50, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete Pages like this are why bulk creation of articles without approval is banned. Two people living there is not an independently notable place, even if it has a name. Reywas92^Talk 14:50, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete per lack of notability. There are dozens of these articles created by someone. Administration, would you consider group delete action? MitYehor📘^^talk 22:21, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Belovskaya, Vologda Oblast

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This supposed "village", in reality just a rural locality used for census-counting purposes, is a single building in which two people live. There is no evidence that it has ever had more than 2 people in it.

The appropriate notability standard for a single building is WP:NBUILDING, which this palpably fails. FOARP (talk) 07:46, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete Pages like this are why bulk creation of articles without approval is banned. Two people living there is not a notable place, even if it has a name. It's quite absurd to look at Google Maps and see this place just a few yards away from labels for Maksimovskaya, Petryayevskaya, Markovskaya, Shadrino (also population 2), Kuznecheevskaya (14), and Andreevskaya (7). These are not independently notable communities. Reywas92^Talk 14:49, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
Maybe derived from the names of the house owners? Maksimov, Petryayev, Markov etc. Geschichte (talk) 17:45, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
This is very likely but it's hard to show. FOARP (talk) 08:38, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Gidatlinsky Most

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There is nothing at the location in the article, particularly, there is no bridge (most).

There is a single large building with some smaller out-buildings next to a bridge some miles from the location, labelled "Gidmost". Possibly these are supposed to be the same place, but also possibly not. Even if they are the same place, the transient nature of the population at this location and the presence of just one building of any significance there suggests that it is not an actual settlement but may be just e.g., a hotel. FOARP (talk) 16:10, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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Comment - FYI the locations for these stubs were pulled from a source with ~1 mile precision. I'm on mobile at the moment and can't easily pull it up, but one of the other sources should have coordinates that match GMaps. –dlthewave ☎ 16:46, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Searching on Yandex, the Gidmost location appears to be an individual service-station. This would explain its transient population.

The appropriate notability standard for a business is WP:NCORP which this obviously doesn't pass. Alternatively for an individual building its WP:NBUILDING which this also does not pass. FOARP (talk) 09:38, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Uryupino, Zabaykalsky Krai

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This appears to be an individual farm. The reported population is consistent with a single family farm. There is no evidence that an actual settlement is, or ever was, at this location. The appropriate notability standard is WP:NBUILDING or WP:NCORP, both of which are clearly failed here. FOARP (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete It's possible more people lived here at one time, but a "rural locality" is not automatically notable because the census counted a single family living there. Reywas92^Talk 17:24, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete - Individual farms/homesteads have no presumed notability. –dlthewave ☎ 17:24, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Khaykan

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This rural locality, which does not ever appear to have had more than 2 people in it, is very clearly a single building/farm. The appropriate notability standard is therefore WP:NBUILDING, which this fails due to the lack of significant coverage. FOARP (talk) 15:59, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - Individual farms/buildings have no presumed notability. –dlthewave ☎ 17:23, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Razdolnoye, Zabaykalsky Krai

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Whilst the article describes this location as a "settlement" with "11 streets", the reality, as described in the corresponding Russian Wikipedia article, is that this is a railway station with a population of 1 person.

How exactly a place with a population of 1 is supposed to have 11 streets is not clear - most of the sources here are 403 or blocked by my firewall due to malware. Looking at the map at the labelled location, the buildings of the train-stop can be seen, and there is a village some distance away on the opposite side of the tracks, but it is not clear that the village is Razdolnoye, particularly as it evidently has a population of more than 1.

The notability standard for a train station is WP:NBUILDING, which this fails as there is no significant coverage.

I can accept a redirect to Mogochinsky district as an alternative. FOARP (talk) 15:54, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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~~Keep~~ - Razdolnoye was a larger village in earlier phases of history. As seen in ru.wiki (with source), it had 25 inhabitants in 2002. Here is an e-book entirely dedicated to the history of Razdolnoye (, unfortunately self-published and thus not WP:RS). The village had a population of 611 as of 1910. --Soman (talk) 10:31, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
A population of 25 does not substantiate that this was actually a village. A census merely count the people at the location on the day in question, who may have been there temporarily.

Self-published sources are not accepted as reliable sources. FOARP (talk) 10:43, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
Here is the original 1912 source (p. 385), translated snippet: "Razdolnoye Village No. 160, Razdolninskaya Volost, Nizhny Novgorod-Ussuriysk District; founded in 1866; its population: male 331, female 280, total 611. The village has: a) two churches, one of which was built in 1886 with public funds and cost 3,000 rubles, and the other in 1908-1910, also with public funds, and cost 24,000 rubles; b) a church school, built in 1908 with public funds and a treasury subsidy of 4,000 rubles. [...] There are no factories or mines, but there are two state-owned brick factories; Here in the village there are troops that provide the local population with earnings by transporting provisions, coal, firewood, hay; in addition, they sell meat, vegetables, dairy products and hay from their farms to the troops.". A village with 611 inhabitants is above WP:GEOLAND threshold, and here confirmed that it used to be a Razdolnoye volost (which is an easy WP:GEOLAND pass as a formal administrative unit). --Soman (talk) 10:59, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
Is the location we are discussing in Nizhny Novgorod-Ussuriysk District? Where indeed is Nizhny Novgorod-Ussuriysk District?

According to the RU Wiki article for Mogochinsky District, this area of Russia was not substantially settled until construction of the Trans-Baikal railway, so it's possible we are discussing different locations. FOARP (talk) 11:32, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
Hi @Soman, I think the suggestion made below by Fram is very likely to be true: the source is talking about a different place in a different part of Russia. Would you like to amend your !vote in light of that? The railway station we are discussing is in Mogochinsky district, Zabaykalsky Krai, on the railway that was not built until 1908, not a village established in the 1860's in "Novgorod-Ussuriysk District" (whereever this is) in the Russian far east. FOARP (talk) 08:44, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
Delete. I think the village discussed in the above "Keep" is Razdolnoye, Primorsky Krai and not this one... Fram (talk) 11:18, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
Yeah, this makes sense. Mogochinsky district wasn't even settled unti the trans-siberian was built. Wouldn't make sense to describe the place without mentioning the railway anyway. FOARP (talk) 11:34, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

SPDC Colony

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Stub unsourced since creation in 2010. The article topic is not itself even clear, the article does not know the name of what it's about and makes no effort to even explain what the topic is, other than to suggest where it is. Clearly not notable, and without sources or even a consensus on what the name is (!) unverifiable as well. Lenny Marks (talk) 14:19, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete: as per nom. I had already nominated this article via PROD earlier this year based on similar reasoning, but another editor cancelled it preferring to redirect - and then never redirected it. Coeusin (talk) 15:32, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete: Fails in WP:GEOLAND. I am really surprised by how long this has survived. From the page creator's userpage, it's evident that he lives there and hence, created a Wikipedia page for his locality; and that violates multiple of our policies. BhikhariInformer (talk) 04:06, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete per WP:V concerns. For the same reason, I would oppose a redirect as this hasn't been verified by reliable sources. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:57, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

2025 Turkey water crisis

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I propose merging to Water supply and sanitation in Turkey because:

1) Rainfall varies a lot from year to year, so there has been drought in Turkey sometimes in the past few years and will probably happen again in next few years. A lot of the 2025 info is also relevant to other years.

2) Water improvements are done over many years - for example https://cdniys.tarimorman.gov.tr/api/File/GetGaleriFile/502/DosyaGaleri/7970/suverimliligi_ep_ing_web091124.pdf ends in 2033 and https://www.tarimorman.gov.tr/SYGM/Haber/1362/Ulusal-Su-Plani-_2026%E2%80%932035_-11063-Sayili-Cumhurbaskanligi-Karari-Ile-14-Mart-2026-Tarihli-Ve-33196-Sayili-Resm%C3%AE-Gazetede-Yayimlandi in 2035

3) There would be more chance of the info being updated if they were a single article rather than two. Chidgk1 (talk) 11:33, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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Merge. I also don't see why this would require a separate article. Koshuri ^(あ!) 15:20, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

List of largest hydroelectric power stations

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I propose merging to List of conventional hydroelectric power stations because these two lists are nearly identical. I cannot identify any difference in purpose between the two lists. They both list hydropower stations. Even if some difference were identified, they contain 99% identical information. The only distinction I can see is that the "conventional" list is sorted (by default) based on Name, where as the "largest" list is sorted by capacity. But all the columns in both lists have sort arrows at the top of the columns, so readers can click on those sort arrows to get whatever sort-order they want. When WP is so short-handed, do we really need two lists that are virtually identical? Noleander (talk) 16:58, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

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Merge Agree that there doesn't need to be two pages here. Reywas92^Talk 17:34, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
I think there may be three distinctions between the two lists:
1. One list includes 1,000 MW generation and higher; other is 3,000 MW and higher.
2. One list has default sort on "Name" column; other sorts on "Capacity"
3. [not sure about this one] One list includes dams only, the other list includes dams and (very rare) non-dam hydropower?

Regardless, my merge proposal still stands: Each of these three distinctions are trivial and easily accommodated in a merged list (with sort capabiltiy at the top of each column). Noleander (talk) 17:39, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Merge The "Years of completion" and other categories should be copied over. You can click on Capacity HP and sort by the size. Dream Focus 21:35, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
@Dream Focus - Do you know if there is an automated tool to add columns into existing lists? or copy columns from one list to another? I never use Visual Editor: does it help with those kinds of chores? Noleander (talk) 21:42, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
I just asked Grok.com to give me the wikitext to copy over that had all the details from the list of both articles together. https://grok.com/c/3a002217-96e3-40d2-a3ae-bd387114c704?rid=67be95f4-af71-4d16-8f56-9c6e048789ed

I kept trying to change my wording, but it didn't do it. The free version of Grok only has the Fast stupid mode. If anyone has the paid version, they'd have an easier time of it. Dream Focus 22:03, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
Alright, thanks for the research. Seems like something that Wikimedia Foundation should do: they should come up with a recipe to make this happen for any pair of comparable tables... whether it uses LLM or not. This sort of table merging must be a pretty common action, no? Noleander (talk) 22:34, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
Visual Editor works well for this. If you're copy-pasting, you'll just need to make sure the dams are in the same order so everything lines up. –dlthewave ☎ 01:21, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
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Merge into one big list. "List of largest hydroelectric power stations" is probably the better title, but no need to get hung up on that. –dlthewave ☎ 01:17, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge. Thanks for the ping. Yes, as someone who has worked on these lists many years ago, I agree that these should be merged. "List of largest hydroelectric power stations" seems like a good title, but we may want to continue with some sort of threshhold (i.e. >1,000 MW). If we are merging, we should have a "Type" column, that defines Conventional, Pumped-storage, etc. Cheers, Reh man 05:20, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Agree that the ultimate title and the precise list of columns are still open issues, but I think those decisions will be straightforward (perhaps inevitable). Once we get consensus on the merge proposal (if approved), I can start a discussion in the List talk page on those details. Noleander (talk) 13:38, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Riihimäki sub-region

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I propose merging to Kanta-Häme, as this represents a relatively minor and short-lived administrative structure. This AfD is a test case for a broader merge of sub-regions into their parent regions. Historically, sub-regions functioned as formal administrative entities in 1994–2014, primarily to facilitate inter-municipal cooperation. Today, their role is mostly limited to statistical classification, and they are used in regional news categorization.

Most of the articles about the sub-regions are badly sourced, both here and in fiwiki, and finding additional sources is difficult. All the information here is already present at Kanta-Häme#Sub-regions. The map cannot be included at the target page, but perhaps the regional borders could be added to the {{Location map+}} instead? Jähmefyysikko (talk) 11:24, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

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Support per nominator's rationale. FaviFake (talk) 16:25, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge to Kanta-Häme for the reasons given. I checked the Forssa sub-region and Hämeenlinna sub-region as the relevant broader examples and they are of a similar level of quality, and could similarly be merged (boldly would be fine). I also support the broader case for consolidation, except in cases where a merge would make the target article WP:TOOLONG; there are significant benefits of context. Klbrain (talk) 09:38, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Main University Road

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Unsourced, appears to fail WP:NGEO (the only independent source I found was this) Mariamnei (talk) 11:02, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete – Per lack of WP:SIGCOV. Svartner (talk) 22:36, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete for now, but this topic can be properly covered later. M. Billoo 11:30, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete - Clearly AI generated (note in particular the formatting of the original version) and thus fails WP:NEWLLM. Gnomingstuff (talk) 07:20, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Alur, Bellary

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This has 2 references and 1 sentence. There is nothing about the place at all. In addition this doesn't meet notability requirements. Dafootballguy | Want to talk? 01:31, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Delete: per nom, it also doesn't help one of the citations is a tagged a permanent dead link. Gavetheman555 (talk) 01:50, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Delete. Can't find anything. SenshiSun (talk) 02:37, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

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Andrew, Louisiana

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Not notable or sourced. This doesn't need a page and lacks adequate sourcing. Dafootballguy | Want to talk? 22:52, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete: lacks any WP:SIGCOV and general notability guidelines for places.Dz5t 8O12 (talk) 07:05, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Delete for lack of WP:SIGCOV that probably overrides WP:GEOLAND Pksois23 (talk) 16:49, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Northwestern South Asia

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This seems to be a synthesized topic with no established notability. Kautilya3 (talk) 11:01, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete. This is the definition of a bad fork. It's just regurgitating information from other articles. Trumpetrep (talk) 22:04, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete. No academic sources even use such terminology to begin with. Looks like original research to me Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 05:47, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:15, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Malarana Chour

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This is a biased geostub article where the only sources are from wikimapia... Which is user generated. Searching malarana shour on Google does give me a very detailed article from Onefivenine, but that is also user generated. Searching more does not give me anything of interest. Normally I'd give very extreme geostubs a pass because of how relaxed the notability guidelines of geographic places are, but this is way too extreme. All content that does exist on this random indian place are all user generated. Yelps ᘛ⁠⁐̤⁠ᕐ⁠ᐷ critique me 17:32, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete: This village has no notability and fails verifiability and WP:POPULATED. Dz5t 8O12 (talk) 17:53, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

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Stringtown, Sullivan County, Indiana

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:NPLACE. Almost zero evidence this place even exists. As for the USGS, it only shows this place as a post, not a community, which may not even exist, which has been a common theme with these communities I've submitted AFDs for. ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 01:13, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - Fails WP:V as it is impossible to confirm this place even exists. It does not show up on the map at the location given in the article. As the article states, there are a number of "Stringtowns", so it is not clear, even if you can find a "Stringtown", that it is the "Stringtown" that this article is talking about. FOARP (talk) 09:34, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Verkhneye Bartenevo

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This is a khutor (family farm) with very low population. No sign of significant coverage or official recognition to meet GNG or GEOLAND. –dlthewave ☎ 20:47, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

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Keep per WP:GEOLAND. Included in at least two censuses, in the Russian Classification of Territories of Municipal Formations, and in this document issued by the Kursk State Duma, On the Approval of the Register of Administrative-Territorial Units and Settlements of the Kursk Region. Kelob2678 (talk) 19:45, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete Being in a census does not establish notability, as this is essentially a census tract. A place with a population of seven to ten is not a notable community, and substantive sources would be needed to establish the need for an article. Perhaps the Brezhnevsky Selsoviet rural settlement, which is the legally recognized local government here, is notable, but not necessarily each homestead within it. Reywas92^Talk 01:25, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - This is a single individual farm - that is what can be seen at the site, and that is what its population is consistent with. The corresponding RU WP article confirms that it is a "personal subsidiary farm" based on a cadastral survey. The appropriate notability standard for a farm is WP:NCORP or WP:NBUILDING, both of which this is a clear failure of. The content of the article is also clearly heavily algorithmically-generated content not substantiating notability.

Arguments based on GEOLAND run into the issue that mere listing in a census is not meaningful recognition, and that the class of entity (khutor) is entirely analogous to similar entities that have been found not to be notable (Abadis, GNIS populated places etc.), being a simply rural locality. They are, however, emblematic of the problems that GEOLAND's vague wording causes. FOARP (talk) 10:39, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Delete what I said here.Samuelshraga (talk) 19:50, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Nizhneye Bartenevo

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This is a khutor (family farm) with very low population. No sign of significant coverage or official recognition to meet GNG or GEOLAND. –dlthewave ☎ 20:46, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

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Keep per WP:GEOLAND. Included in at least two censuses, in the Russian Classification of Territories of Municipal Formations, and in this document issued by the Kursk State Duma, On the Approval of the Register of Administrative-Territorial Units and Settlements of the Kursk Region. Kelob2678 (talk) 19:44, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete Being in a census does not establish notability, as this is essentially a census tract. A place with a population of one to six is not a notable community, and substantive sources would be needed to establish the need for an article. Perhaps the Brezhnevsky Selsoviet rural settlement, which is the legally recognized local government here, is notable, but not necessarily each homestead within it. Reywas92^Talk 01:24, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - This is an individual farm. This is what can be seen at the location. This is also what the reported population is consistent with. The description of the location on the RU Wiki article is also consistent with this ("Private farm").

The notability standard for an individual farm is WP:NCORP or WP:NBUILDING, which this fails. Arguments based on GEOLAND fall flat here as mere listing in a census is not legal recognition, unless my house (which is listed in a census) is also legally recognised. They are, however, emblematic of the problems with the vague wording of the GEOLAND standard. FOARP (talk) 10:48, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Delete - I think WP:GEOLAND could stand to be re-written, given Populated, legally recognized places is a category capable of practically infinite sub-division (individual apartments are legally recognised, no?). I don't think it can mean this. Samuelshraga (talk) 19:50, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Tyoply, Kursk Oblast

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This is a khutor (family farm) with very low population. No sign of significant coverage or official recognition to meet GNG or GEOLAND. –dlthewave ☎ 20:45, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

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Keep per WP:GEOLAND. Included in at least two censuses, in the Russian Classification of Territories of Municipal Formations, and in this document issued by the Kursk State Duma, On the Approval of the Register of Administrative-Territorial Units and Settlements of the Kursk Region. Kelob2678 (talk) 19:44, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete Being in a census does not establish notability. A place with a population of zero to nine is not a notable community, and substantive sources would be needed to establish the need for an article. Perhaps the Brezhnevsky Selsoviet rural settlement, which is the local government here, is notable, but not necessarily each former homestead within it. Reywas92^Talk 01:18, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - Firstly and most importantly, there is nothing at the location provided in the article. Not even any sign of the location having ever been inhabited. All that can be seen there is a line of trees running beside a small path in the middle of empty fields. Nowhere near there has this name. This instantly casts doubt on whether this place even exists or is verifiable. This therefore is a potential WP:V fail.

The population of 0 in 2010 and 9 in 2002 is consistent with, for example, temporary accommodation at the site, for example a camp of some kind, or a mobile population. Temporarily-inhabited locations such as camps are typically not notable absent a GNG pass.

Arguments based on GEOLAND fall flat as mere listing of a place in a census is not meaningful "legal recognition", unless my house is also a legally-recognised settlement. FOARP (talk) 11:00, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Delete - what I said here. Samuelshraga (talk) 19:51, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Averinsky

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This is a khutor (family farm) with very low population. No sign of significant coverage or official recognition to meet GNG or GEOLAND. –dlthewave ☎ 20:44, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

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Keep per WP:GEOLAND. Included in at least two censuses, in the Russian Classification of Territories of Municipal Formations, and in this document issued by the Volgograd State Duma, On the Approval of the Register of Administrative-Territorial Units and Settlements of the Volgograd Region. Kelob2678 (talk) 19:49, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete Being in a census does not establish notability, as this is essentially a census tract. A place with a population of 18 is not a notable community, and substantive sources would be needed to establish the need for an article. Perhaps the Brezhnevsky Selsoviet rural settlement, which is the legally recognized local government here, is notable, but not necessarily each homestead within it. Reywas92^Talk 01:27, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - A khutor is essentially just a rural locality, a classification that can include individual farms. Mere inclusion as a counting-unit in a census is not sufficient to make something a village/town/settlement. Listing in a census is not "legal recognition", otherwise my house would be a "legally recognised settlement". Legal recognition requires conferring a legal status - for example a level of self-administration - on a settlement. Alternatively this could simply be redirected to Sulyayevsky which this appears to be part of and is administrated from. FOARP (talk) 15:35, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
It is included in the "Register of Administrative-Territorial Units and Settlements of the Volgograd Region", so it is legally recognized. Kelob2678 (talk) 16:51, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
It’s in a class of localities that includes single-person, single-building locations, as well as uninhabited locations.

And again, my house is also on the UK census. Is my house a “legally recognised populated place”? FOARP (talk) 04:52, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
If it's included in a list of settlements published by the UK government, then your house also passes GEOLAND. Whether a location is a legally recognized settlement is not determined by its population. Kelob2678 (talk) 07:35, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
When interpreted to include individual buildings, this standard is meaningless, and would render WP:NBUILDING pointless.

This does, however, demonstrate how throwing the issue of what should and should not be included on WP to local law leads to perverse results. FOARP (talk) 08:33, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
Note. We have almost 1500 such articles, so if consensus here is this one isn't notable, then perhaps a discussion should be started on how to deal with the other very similar ones. Fram (talk) 15:45, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
They were creating these articles about single-building-locations with populations of 1 or 2. I've nominated the 1-person one for deletion but its the tip of the iceberg. FOARP (talk) 16:12, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
I know, I once started merging the quasi-identical articles about small villages to lists per district (I think), but new articles were created more rapidly than I could merge them... I notice a few other editors tried the same, but apparently stopped as well, presumably overwhelmed by the massive scale of the endeavour. The first few sections of List of rural localities in Vologda Oblast give an idea of what could be done with them, instead of having thousands of pages like this. Fram (talk) 16:18, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Keep. Passes WP:GEOLAND per Kelob2678. Wouldn't be opposed to merging to a larger municipality, but we don't have an article on the next level of administrative geography here (Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement). Apparently Nazi occupiers mass murdered children in this village , so there is likely to be more coverage on this village. indicates another book or article about this event.

gives more information about the mills in this locality, and I found a number more mentions of this locality in Russian archaeological texts on Google Books. Katzrockso (talk) 20:50, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Mills are not automatically notable, they have to pass WP:NCORP. A massacre is not automatically notable, it has to pass WP:NEVENT. The name is a common name, so it is not clear that these are the same location anyway.

You’re not engaging with there not being any actual village at this location. FOARP (talk) 21:45, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

The question isn't whether the mill is notable or the event is notable, so that's not relevant. Katzrockso (talk) 23:26, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

You’re stating that the mills and the event make it notable - that’s an WP:INHERIT argument. But its’s not clear these even happened here, there are neither mills nor a village at this site. It’s an individual farm.

Also we do have an article about Sulyayevsky.

PS- the appendix to the report about the mills is a report on, quote: “Country access road from the village of Svyatitsa to the “Falenki” station on the Perm railway”. It explains that the village of Svyatitsa is in the Glazovsky District. This is clearly not the location we are talking about.

Additionally, this is a location to the north of former-Stalingrad and does not appear to have ever come under Nazi occupation. As far as I can determine, the Germans formed their line on the Don river (which is south of the location we are discussing). Therefore it does not appear that a Nazi massacre could have taken place here either, so it took place in another location with the same name.

The other link you’ve provided is to an account of a repression of peasants that occurred in 1937 - not a Nazi massacre - in Sysertsky District in the Urals. Again, this is not the location we are discussing.

All this has demonstrated is that this is a common place-name so you need to be careful to check whether the place you see mentioned is the individual farm we are talking about here. FOARP (talk) 07:59, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

No, an INHERIT argument would be "This place is notable because a notable company was founded here". The argument I'm making is that there is coverage of this location with respect to the mill and with respect to the events that happened there.

Sulyayevsky is not the same as Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement, which we do not have an article on. Sulyayevsky is also in Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement, as the article itself notes; Sulyayevsky (Russian: Суляевский) is a rural locality (a khutor) and the administrative center of Sulyayevskoye Rural Settlement, Kumylzhensky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

The article I linked from victims.rusarchives.ru is about the "mass execution of children by Nazi occupiers in the Averinsky farmstead in the Kalanchevsky district of the Stalingrad region" (via machine translation). Averinsky is indeed a farmstead, as you have noted. Averinsky is in Volgograd Oblast, which was formerly known as Stalingrad Oblast. You are correct on the Pechurkina piece, it is about Averino, Sverdlovsk Oblast. Russian has many grammatical cases, so it is difficult to distinguish similarly spelled villages. Katzrockso (talk) 18:24, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Our Averinsky farm is in Volograd, but not in Kalachevsky District (I assume this is the district referred to - there is no Kalanchevsky District as far as I can see). It is instead in Kumylzhensky District. It is well north of the Don so the Germans never reached there (the Russian wiki article for Kumylzhensky confirms this - the area was in the rear of the Soviet line), so there could have been no "Nazi massacre" there. Again, all this confirms is that there are multiple places even within the same oblast with this name.

Of course this is assuming victims.rusarchives.ru is even a reliable source - my firewall blocks it so I'm inclined to think not, accessing the page via the internet archive I can see that it is simply a report from a Soviet war time propaganda outlet - very possibly not true, if it was true I would expect at least a post-war source. And even if it was, it's the wrong district to be our Averinsky farm.

It's been suggested in another discussion that these farms are just named after the surname of the people who live there, which would explain the common nature of their names. FOARP (talk) 19:09, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

This discussion illustrates the danger of using such sparse sourcing that it's unclear which thing we're actually talking about. We've had similar issues when different Olympic athletes with the same name end up getting combined because the article creator never took a close look at what they were writing about. –dlthewave ☎ 02:28, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Kalinin, Kursk Oblast

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This is a Khutor (family farm) with very low population. No sign of significant coverage or official recognition to meet GNG or GEOLAND. –dlthewave ☎ 20:41, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

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Keep per WP:GEOLAND. Included in at least two censuses, in the Russian Classification of Territories of Municipal Formations, and in this document issued by the Kursk State Duma, On the Approval of the Register of Administrative-Territorial Units and Settlements of the Kursk Region. Kelob2678 (talk) 19:42, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete Being in a census does not establish notability, as this is essentially a census tract. A place with a population of three or four is not a notable community, and substantive sources would be needed to establish the need for an article. Perhaps the Brezhnevsky Selsoviet rural settlement, which is the legally recognized local government here, is notable, but not necessarily each homestead within it. Reywas92^Talk 01:25, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete - This is an individual farm. That is what can be seen at the location. That is what its reported population is consistent with. There is no evidence that it has ever been anything more than this.

The appropriate notability standard for a farm is WP:NCORP or WP:NBUILDING both of which are very obviously failed here. FOARP (talk) 11:04, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Swift Creek, North Carolina

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Fails WP:NPLACE Bryce M (talk) 17:57, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete: Townships are such a huge pain. They seldom have any specific coverage, but in the US they are "populated, legally-recognized places" as per WP:GEOLAND (by far the most ridiculous policy on WP, in my opinion). Regardless, all we have are the unreliable GNIS and the Census Bureau for name, location, and population. Otherwise we have nothing to say. Since there are at least three Swift Creeks (actual creeks) and three Swift Creek Townships in North Carolina , this article is confusing without further information to back it up. Open to changing my opinion if sources are found. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 12:10, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
Keep per GEOLAND, but rename Swift Creek Township, Pitt County, North Carolina (the one in Wake County has significantly more residents). The Census has info (more than the population) about the township. WeirdNAnnoyed's dislike of GEOLAND is irrelevant. Clarityfiend (talk) 17:27, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
Neutral (was Keep) per WP:GEOLAND. These township articles appear to be normally kept at AFD, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chester Township, Morrow County, Ohio (Oct. 2006) - Kept (predates WP:GEOLAND); Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glenwood Township, Schuyler County, Missouri (Dec. 2015) -- Group nomination for the seven townships in this county kept unanimously, per WP:GEOLAND; Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grant Township, Guthrie County, Iowa (Oct. 2021) -- Keep per WP:GEOLAND; Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Westphalia Township, Shelby County, Iowa (Mar 2025). in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lincoln Township, Shelby County, Iowa (March 2025) i commented, "Structurally speaking we have thousands of township articles as the primary next level subdivision of United States counties, judging each individually would create an absolute incoherent mess." That's still my view, I prefer a bright line rule over individual AFDs, even if many of these articles just report census data over time, that can still be useful.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 18:13, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

In light of Mangoe's delete !vote being emphatic, and no other townships in this county having articles, I'm changing my !vote to neutral. There's other ways to compile census info.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 19:13, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

emphatic delete What people are missing is that NC townships were an extremely short-lived notion that are utterly non-notable. We have discussed this before. We do not need an article on each; we really don't even need to discuss any of them individually. Mangoe (talk) 11:27, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete as per arguments above. Not notable. All there is are coordinates and a census entry. Harryb7 (talk) 19:43, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 19:25, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Golden Corridor

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Similar rationale to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lakeshore Corridor. I tried searching for secondary sources that mention and describe the term, but they are very limited, and what few that do exist are commercial journals, industry publications, and news stories about local businesses. None of them are what I'd call reliable sources, nor do they really describe the area, aside from a few mentioning at best that it's a (vaguely if defined at all) area around Interstate 90 in Northwest Chicago. Therefore, it fails WP:N. My interpretation is that it appears to be a WP:NEO created by local businessmen and investors as a marketing/branding term that hasn't really been promoted outside of those circles. OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 04:01, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 04:01, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 07:11, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
Comment: The first nomination from 2005 appears to have been about a different Golden Corridor in Dallas. (The Chicago one was actually mentioned there as having far more Google hits back then than the Dallas one, but that metric is less relevant to AfD in 2026 than back then.) No opinion at this time on the current subject's article. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 15:34, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Shopping malls, Entertainment, Health and fitness, Education, Economics, and Transportation. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 15:36, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

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Delete 20 years to find sources and none of the currently cited ones even mention this place. I saw a few very passing mentions in news archive searches but no articles actually about this as a distinct area. --Here2rewrite (talk) 16:40, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

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Golden Corridor

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