Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Lake (Nova Scotia)


 * 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 as rewritten. Eluchil404 (talk) 11:51, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Black Lake (Nova Scotia)

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This article actually fails WP:CSD (insufficient context to identify the topic of the article), but since it's been around for a few years, I'm bringing it here. As one can see by going here and searching for the name "Black Lake" while restricting the search to Nova Scotia, there are 21 different Black Lakes in the province of Nova Scotia (thus rendering the article's title hopelessly ambiguous) and 5 such lakes in the Halifax Regional Municipality alone (thus rendering the article's one-sentence text ambiguous as well). With no specific referencing or information, the article is useless. It's possible that sourced articles on each of these lakes could be written; but as it stands, this is an article on none—or in some sense all—of them and thus provides no useful information to any user of the encyclopedia. Deor (talk) 17:10, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nova Scotia-related deletion discussions. 20:12, 19 August 2012 (UTC)  • Gene93k (talk) 20:12, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Convert to a geodis page, with bluelinks to their counties. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:46, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment. From the coordinates in the article, the lake appears to be this entry (CADZL), Black Lake near Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. I have not yet found any non-trivial reliable source coverage to distinguish this body of water. • Gene93k (talk) 23:07, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * As you can see from the history, I added the coordinates to the article myself, choosing at random among the five Black Lakes in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Then, when I noticed that the corresponding entry in List of lakes of Nova Scotia (which seems to have prompted the creation of this article) included the coordinates of a different one of the lakes, I changed them to match those in the list, so there would at least be agreement between the list and the article. Nevertheless, I stand by the rationale for deletion given in my nomination. Deor (talk) 23:46, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep Per the excellent expansion work by Aymatth.♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:43, 20 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Convert to DAB page - The article needs to be split out to separate articles on each lake, as each lake should be a separate topic. -- Whpq (talk) 19:48, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep There is now enough content to be useful. It is a sort of DAB page, but with counties & coordinates of all the lakes for comparison.  A couple of the lakes may have enough content to justify stand-alone articles, and any editor who wants to do that can go ahead, but most have so little information they would end up in AfD again.  This seems the most convenient format for the reader who wants to find out about Black Lake, Nova Scotia.  Aymatth2 (talk) 02:24, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you'd like to take on the rest of Dr. Blofeld's Canadian-lake substubs, then? Another one, which I happened to notice this morning, is Diamond Lake (Ontario) (there are at least ten Diamond Lakes in Ontario). There may be scores of these "articles" that need attention, and I'm afraid that I'm not up to the task myself. Deor (talk) 12:13, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I dislike stubs that provide no information. But if a title can easily be expanded to give information, it is more useful to readers and more efficient in terms of total editor time to do so than to nominate the article for deletion.  Diamond Lake (Ontario) is useless as it stands, but a quick check shows that a meaningful article could easily be made for the     Diamond Lake near Bancroft.  And it would be very easy to use the Natural Resource Canada database to make a list of Diamond Lakes in Ontario like the list in this article.  Either or both are better options than nominating for deletion.  There is no great urgency with the lakes, which will still be there many years from now, I hope.  Aymatth2 (talk) 12:35, 22 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep &  Rename  - This is similar to an earlier AFD discusiion on Articles for deletion/Carpenters Bridge which was voted for Keep. While one is hardly notable, the collection together under the name Black Lake (Nova Scotia) is worth keeping. Rename Black Lake, Nova Scotia would be more accurate. A DAB page is probably not needed if a redirect is used for each lake. Black Lake, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Black Lake, Halifax, Nova Scotia Black Lake, Pictou County, Nova Scotia Black Lake, Queens County, Nova Scotia Black Lake, Victoria County, Nova Scotia Jrcrin001 (talk) 06:18, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep, article has been salvaged. I agree with comments by Jrcrin001, except that I strongly disagree with renaming the article.  Naming convention (at least across Canada) for geographical features is to use parentheses (eg, Black Lake (Nova Scotia)) whereas "Black Lake, Nova Scotia" would indicate a village/town/municipality (eg, Bear River, Nova Scotia).   PK  T (alk)  14:00, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - PKT, okay with me. Jrcrin001 (talk) 21:19, 24 August 2012 (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.