Talk:List of populated places in the municipality of Dragash, Kosovo

Need for article
Helo, this article was based on the GNS names. It contains all the alternative names and locations of places in dragash. It is not the same as the list of places by municipalities, which was sourced from OSCE has different spellings and is another project to work on,that list contains only the major place. This list contains all known names. It is not possible to put the locations and all the names on one page, because of the limits of wikipedia. please do not delete this page, I spent a long time working on it and the related pages and it is an important resource for the wikipedia. see the full list of all places here : I am slowly working on integrating them into the wikipedia. Requested_articles/Social_sciences/Geography,_cities,_regions_and_named_places/Kosovo

if you must for some strange reason have to remove this page, pleas DO NOT DELETE IT but move it back to the requested article where it came from, and we need to them find were to put the information for the small villages in brod that I have redirected here.

The idea was to collect the details for the villages on these municipality pages instead of creating articles for them, that will redoce the explosion of articles and put places close to each other into the same page.

thanks, James Michael DuPont (talk) 11:36, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * This is not list of populated places, this is chaos of coordinates, and names in Serbian and Albanian, and as this, we dont need it, as we already need to fix main article regarding municipalities, List of populated places in Kosovo by Municipality. Also, we DO need articles about each of those places, as they are notable enough per it's existence. -- WhiteWriter speaks 11:47, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * All of these locations are from GNS. all of the names as well. It is a list form article and contains valuable information for reference. You cannot put the coords on the main list article because there will be too many templates. I think this is a good compromise, because you have at least a stub for the place instead of a red link. you have the names and location of the place, because we have it. I think it is a win for the wikipedia, not a loss. Before you had no information about these places, now you have a reliable source for them. I am willing to put the work into making it better, and I did not import all the pages, just this one, because of the discussion on the gorani. This new technique of redirecting to a section is good, the villages might not be notable on their own, but as a collection they are valuable. They can be used to resolve ambiguity. This needs time and work, and you see I have been working on geographic things in kosovo, please give me the time to work  on this and make it better. I can format the entries better, that should not be a problem. There is a definite structure to his, it is mathematical. I object to having my work deleted, I dont know if you have worked on any of these gorani articles of have tried to place photos from Kosovo on the map but this article will help people. See the large amount of photos we have been collecting and there are more coming in, for this we need to have the names in wikipedia and any reliable information that is available should be prepared in a usable format. Dont speedly delete, thanks, mike James Michael DuPont (talk) 12:02, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because mr whitewriter is harassing me and driving me away from wikipedia. I wish he would stop. --James Michael DuPont (talk) 22:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Status and Advice
This is not a test page in the sense we use it, and consequently can not be speedy deleted.

As reviewing administrator,  I see nothing wrong with an article of this type: we have many such pages. The individual places listed are probably each of them suitable for an article, but a combination article is a good way to start on this. (If they are separate legal entities, then individual articles are certainly appropriate if anyone wishes to go to the trouble of writing them. If they are mere neighborhoods, it depends on the sources. (Our  unofficial but generally observed way of handling these topics is at Notability (geography). )

Further discussions on the content of this article should take place on the talk page of this article; the question of whether it should be pmerged into the parent article can be raised on ieitherthe talk p. of this article, o of the parent article. A challenge  can be brought at WP:AFD, but my advice is that this is very unlikely to result in its deletion.

In any case, the material needs appropriate formatting, in the same fashion as other articles on geographic subjects, according to the guidelines in WP:Manual of Style,and WP:FIRST.

It is also essential to  keep  the discussion from getting personal.  DGG ( talk ) 22:49, 18 April 2012 (UTC)