Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gannow Green


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 20:55, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Gannow Green

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Non-notable town that has been unsourced since 2008 Majash2020 (talk) 05:46, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Majash2020 (talk) 05:46, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone  07:54, 12 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Nominator has completely failed to carry out WP:BEFORE. Article is now expanded and sourced. I remember when this used to be a wiki... Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:01, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete doesnt appear to be that significant a hamlet, it can be included in New Frankley. MilborneOne (talk) 12:44, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - sources added now clearly demonstrate notability Spiderone  13:13, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Towns are always notable per WP:GEOLAND. And sources are only required for controversial claims and quotations per WP:V. Andrew🐉(talk) 17:57, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * - I've got no opinion on the notability of this subject at the moment, but the claim that this is a town appears to be incorrect ... this appears to be some sort of forest based on the references. Hog Farm Bacon 21:21, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Which references say that? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:30, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * - Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this, I didn't have this discussion watchlisted. The Ordnance Survey reference says Name: Gannow Green, Bromsgrove Place type: Woodland Or Forest.  The other sources just use it as a landmark or call it "Gannow Green Farm".  I'm not finding a whole lot that definitively says what it is, but I am in the US, and my search engine downweights non-US sites. This calls it an "agricultural feature", but it's nowhere near RS, so I don't really trust whatever it says.  It's possible there's a town named after the green that I'm finding, but considering that the article itself calls Gannow Green an "area", it could well be a locally prominent woodland.  I think this may be a small woodland of some sort, but I'm not 100% sure. Hog Farm Bacon 02:29, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 * comment I have to agree with those who doubt that it is or was ever a town. None of the references supplied calls it a town, and the Ordinance Survey map doesn't show one, or for that matter, enough room for there to have been one. The OS "Get Outside" reference specifically calls it a "Woodland Or Forest"; the Historic England reference refers to "Gannow Green Farm"; and the BWAS reference on the moated site describes the latter as the site of "a substantial medieval house with the stone wall being a status symbol rather than being needed for defence." I'm having a great deal of trouble seeing how this passes any sort of notability guideline, but I really can't see it as a legally recognized settlement. Mangoe (talk) 04:38, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to the civil parish. As stated above, there's really no evidence that this place was ever a legally recognized municipality, also fails GNG. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  18:06, 19 November 2020 (UTC)


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