Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mattaur

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. - Mailer Diablo 19:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mattaur

Article makes no claim as to this village's notability. Citicat 17:45, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages because it appears to be more info of only local interest about the same area:

Delete, notable for pirate CD shops? POV-zone, non-notable village. Budgiekiller 19:08, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep absent extraordinary circumstances, assuming it's a real place with more than a handful of people. I believe there is ample precedent that inhabited places are noteworthy—we don't have AfD's and deletions based on "boring little town, nothing ever happens there." Article requires much cleanup but that's not a deletion criterion here. Newyorkbrad 19:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Obviously every inhabited place isn't worthy - an apartment building is a place, and so is the street I live on (sounds like a Sesame Street song), but they're not getting articles. Also, the term village needs to be defined here - A handful of tents in the jungle can be called a "village". I've tried to look up what exactly what this region is, without any real success, other that wikipedia mirrors. Anyway, assuming it's a meaningful enough place to deserve keeping, there needs to be something in the article that explains what it is (the population, for instance) I'd say merge it into the main article of Mohali, but I'm not sure there's anything worth merging. Citicat 02:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Articles about villages of any size are automatically kept, but these are only areas of a town that do not assert notability. -- Kicking222 20:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I found a reference which paints a different picture of the village. --Eastmain 22:58, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The reference is quite detailed and provides verifiable information and, per Newyorkbrad, real places with a reasonable number of people in are usually kept. Obvious cleanup needed. Trebor 23:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Villages of all shapes and sizes are included on Wikipedia, so long as they are verifiable. Silensor 03:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It's a real town. Towns, villages and cities are inherently notable. --Oakshade 00:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
keep I wish that villages were not automatically notable for WP purposes, but they are. This is one of the decisions that we're stuck with whether we like it or not, and deleting on that basis is WP:POINT.DGG 03:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The recent revisions have addressed my original concerns, I no longer feel the article should be deleted, although cleanup is still needed. Howver, the associated article Kumbra Chonk still should be deleted or merged into the main article. Citicat 15:08, 11 January 2007 (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.