Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adams Ridge


 * 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 merge to Bowers Mountains. Eddie891 Talk Work 19:38, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Adams Ridge

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This Antarctica stub fails WP:GEOLAND. It is related to a geological/geographical land feature on a continent without permanent human inhabitants and therefore cannot possibly be said to be related to a populated place, still less one with legal recognition. The sole reference is to a USGS survey listing that can be seen here. This a pure directory-listing, and Wikipedia is not a directory (and by extension Wikipedia is not a gazetteer, though it has features of one, and so should not simply reproduce GNIS listings). It is also not significant coverage since it is the equivalent of a capsule review, being only 45 words long. My WP:BEFORE search turned up no further references. This therefore fails WP:GNG.

This article was created by Ser Amantio di Nicolao at 00:51 UTC on 24 March 2008‎ during an article-creation campaign in which articles were created at a rate of one every 30 seconds or less, apparently by going through the GNIS database in alphabetical order and importing listings directly. That day 93 articles were created in this fashion. I say this not as a criticism of SAdN - 2008 was a long time ago and things were quite different then, indeed editors were encouraged to do this - but as an indication of the scale of the problem which I believe can only be addressed through bulk-deletion. I therefore intend for this to be a test-case on Antarctica geostubs sourced only to GNIS, similar to what was done with the articles on abadi that were sourced only to the Iranian census earlier this year. FOARP (talk) 10:21, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2021 November 7.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 10:42, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Antarctica-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:10, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions
 * Merge one sentence to Bowers Mountains, I think that article can do a way better job of discussing the range's features than just having a giant list of feature names. Hog Farm Talk 20:16, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge per Hog Farm. –dlthewave ☎ 00:02, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge: Nominator's rationale with WP:GEOLAND is incorrect. The GEOLAND criteria applicable is crit 4 for named natural features, not crit 1 for legally recognized populated places. That said, this is inline with other situations of this instance; a merge into the above article is the preferred outcome. Curbon7 (talk) 00:58, 8 November 2021 (UTC)


 * 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.