Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jijiga Zone


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The result was Keep. Michig (talk) 07:43, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Jijiga Zone

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Article of disputed fact. No reliable sources validate the existence of the zone. No correlations between the references supplied and the article title. Strong doubt of the existence of Jijiga zone as a place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikicology (talk • contribs) 00:27, 17 August 2014 (UTC) Wikicology (talk) 00:13, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikicology, what is your rationale for deletion of this article? --Oakshade (talk) 00:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep It's a real place in a real country, where almost one million people live & covering hundreds of square miles. AFAIK it meets notability by every relevant standard. The nominator has failed to provide any reason for its deletion, & unless one is forthcoming this should be speedily closed as a Keep. -- llywrch (talk) 00:21, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: the network of my location is bad. Am sorry for the delay. And as per the article above, the creator claimed in the article talk page that Jijiga was renamed by the somalia Goverment to Jijiga Zone.  And no reliable sources comfirm such development by the somalia goverment. Hence it is disputable as Goverment of Somalia can not make such step without more than enough reliable publish source. Mis- information have serious implications on the reliability and integrity of the project (Wikipedia) Wikicology (talk) 00:53, 17 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep A quick Google search brought up many reliable sources discussing the Jijiga Zone and many administrative maps of Ethiopia include the Jijiga zone. Its existence is not in dispute. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 00:58, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: I can sense that you are getting it wrong here. What is the significant diference between Jijiga and Jijiga Zone?.

, in your google search, why not cite the reliable sources in the article for everybody to see. The one you saw is definately for Jijiga and not for Jijiga Zone. If the sources exist as you have claimed the creator would have supply more than enough here. And Jijiga already exist here as an article. Wikicology (talk) 01:14, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Jijiga is both a city and a zone in Ethiopia. Deleting the article on the zone because there is already an article on the city would make as much since as deleting the article on the state of New York because Wikipedia already has an article on the city of New York. Just to prove that a zone exists, I've linked to a website owned by the Ethiopian government . The government website contains a map which shows both the city of Jijiga and the zone of Jijiga. In addition, I've provided links to two books referring specifically to the Jijiga Zone  Spirit of Eagle (talk) 02:07, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Not to mention that the government of Ethiopia has been publishing data -- census returns, news reports, etc. -- about the Jijiga Zone for years. If I neglected to include information such as its creation, it was only because Wikipedia needs so much written about Ethiopia -- & other African countries -- & I got burned out before I could find & add that information to the article. -- llywrch (talk) 06:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep This looks like an obvious keep based on reliable sources. Strawberrie Fields (talk) 13:03, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

user Wikicology if you dont even know the difference between Somaliaand Somali Region of ethiopia you should not be involved about this page. jigjiga Zone is in ethiopia. the somali regional parliament renamed the zone  to faafan in early december 2012, the law was implemented in the early 2013. i am from that region, jigjiga zone is the most populated zone in our somali region of ethiopia (the second largest ethiopian federal state)

in our region most official documents are Somali or Amharic. i linked 2 references 1 somali and 1 from ReliefWeb but user Middayexpress rejected my references although the english one  clearly shows faafan on the map. please check my last revision. luckly i found an other document which says " in Sitti (formerly Shinile) and Fafan (formerly Jijiga) Zones in northern Somali Region. The current rain has not yet fully replenished vegetation, so in many areas there are still shortages of forage"

see the somali region section

"Areas of Concern Northern pastoral and agropastoral areas in Afar and northern Somali Region CURRENT SITUATION

its very disapointing when some users abuse wekipedia rules, to use against something they dont like or dont know about. Jikaar (talk) 01:29, 19 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - This is one of the official zones of Ethiopia. The issue is not whether the zone exists; it does. It's why the Jikaar single purpose account a) keeps trying to change its official name "Jijiga" to its informal alternate "Fafan", b) in the process attempting to substitute Ethiopian government links with non-governmental ones, c) attempting to change the zone's official border with Somalia to Somalia's constitutent Somaliland region, and d) all while rather absurdly claiming to be an Ethiopian government representative ("dude we are the government" ). Middayexpress (talk) 14:54, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
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