Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gadaado


 * 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 delete. Consensus to delete this content but no consensus about whether and where to redirect.  Sandstein  08:59, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Gadaado

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This is another extremely messy case. First off, the name itself, as we spell it, seems to come entirely from news accounts of the rescue of Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted; these accounts, however, inconsistently describe Gadaado, some calling it a town, others not specifying what it is, one at least referring to an "encampment". Geonames, however, has other ideas, for first of all it calls it "Cadaado", and second refers to it as a "locality". Where they point, there are three nearby areas which have the typical hedge-encircled cleared areas which on finds in some of the towns, but there is no trace of a building at any of the three— and which of them might be C/Gadaado? To confuse matters further, our article on the rescue refers to the place as "Adow", which is a name that nobody else seems to recognize. If it weren't for the raid, I would absolutely advocate deletion; possibly, however, we should point at the article on the raid, but then we would need to do something about the naming ambiguity there. Mangoe (talk) 17:05, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Adado and list as an alternate spelling as Cadaado already is. Content on the piracy and hostage incident(s) should also be included. FloridaArmy (talk) 18:44, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 06:53, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Somalia-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 06:53, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Redirect per FloridaArmy. L3X1 ◊distænt write◊  21:58, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I would oppose that vigorously. Adado is in a completely different part of the country and is a pretty big city, and there's no evidence that the one is mistaken for the other. Mangoe (talk) 22:57, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Would redirecting to the rescue page be a good target?L3X1 ◊distænt write◊  23:59, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * As long as we can resolve the naming issue among the various sources for that article. Mangoe (talk) 11:38, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   06:15, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete since we can't agree on a redirect, let's delete it entirely. It's completely unverifiable and may be incorrectly named. I can't do any further sleuthing like I typically do since the state of the article is literally less than 10 words. SportingFlyer  talk  07:09, 6 May 2018 (UTC)


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