Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashuganj City, Bangladesh


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The result was delete, noting the desire to retain the redirect and revert it to a prior version. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:15, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Ashuganj City, Bangladesh

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Hoax. There is a real Ashuganj Upazila (sub-district), but there are no cities or towns in it. It does contain a smaller administrative unit of the same name, a union (the closest equivalent in the west might be a civil parish in Britain). The union in turn contains a village of the same name. There is a large Ashuganj power plant.

No Ashuganj City is listed in the 2011 census, or in Bangladesh's National Encyclopedia Banglapedia, or on the upazila's official government website (in Bengali). Searches of the usual Google types and of HighBeam return no reliable sources for such a city's existence.

The sole cited source confirms the existence of the power plant, but nothing else. The power plant is already adequately covered in the upazila article. Indeed, the "city" article is nearly all a copy of the upazila article.

The article was created by a now-blocked sock-master. Five of the eight non-bot edits have been by three sockpuppets. Their purpose in creating the article is unclear, but they have created other exaggerations in the same geographic area, see Sockpuppet investigations/Armaanaziz for a recently unmasked example. Worldbruce (talk) 06:34, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. Worldbruce (talk) 06:35, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  19:06, 20 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom as unsourced content, probable hoax. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 (talk) 00:44, 21 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment - Ashuganj can't be called a city but a town under Ashuganj Upazila of Brahmanbaria District. The town is a commercial and industrial zone of Chittagong Division and it has been urbanized significantly. There is a power plant, 2 fertilizer & chemical companies (Zia Fertilizer Company Ltd, Ashuganj Fertilizer & Chemical Company), railway station, luxury hotels called RJ Tower Hotel & Resort, Ujan Bhati Hotel  etc. According to Banglapedia the area of the town is 8.99 sq km with a population of 30677. And i found there was an article  titled "Ashuganj" earlier which is redirected to this article. That article can be kept, deleting this. Happiest persoN (talk) 13:12, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * In the nomination I didn't discuss the question of the redirect for fear of confusing readers unfamiliar with the situation and becoming TLDR. My intention, if and when this deletion goes through, is to restore the redirect Ashuganj to a version prior to when it was turned into a redirect by the sockpuppets in February 2014. A broader discussion of how to characterize such places would be useful, and can be conducted elsewhere, but Ashuganj is not a city. Worldbruce (talk) 17:07, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's true that it's not a city. I understood the purpose of nomination and my opinion is slightly different. So i posted my opinion as a "Comment" here. All i wanted to say is, Apart from metro cities, every district, sub district in Bangladesh has some urban areas which are called "Zila Shohor" (District Town) and "Upazila Shohor" (Sub-district Town) respectively. Like that "Ashuganj" is a sub-district town with industrial importance. Happiest persoN (talk) 03:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Happiest persoN (talk) 14:15, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. It seems a hoax.  If I'm proven wrong, go ahead and re-create it.--Oakshade (talk) 00:18, 28 January 2016 (UTC)


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