Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khorugh district


 * 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. Stifle (talk) 10:27, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Khorugh district

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Khorugh district does not exist in Tajikistan; Khorugh is the capital of Shughnon district; see 2004 Administrative Map of Tajikistan and the list of districts in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, where Khorugh is located Zlerman (talk) 05:03, 11 September 2008 (UTC) 
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Tajikistan-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  17:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:18, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 14:45, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment are you proposing a deletion based on a factual error, or am I missing something? Jclemens (talk) 17:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I agree with what User:Jclemens says - why not just change it to a redirect to Shughnon district? AlexTiefling (talk) 17:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... because Khorugh district doesn't exist? Punkmorten (talk) 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Khorugh district simply does not exist in Tajikistan. This page is a gross factual error: there is a town of Khorugh, but there is no Khorugh district among the administrative divisions of Tajikistan. It was created in error as a new article on 11 September 2008 (02:32). Please delete the spurious and factually erroneous article Khorugh district. Let us not propagate the error by redirecting it anywhere. --Zlerman (talk) 01:48, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not claiming that there is such a district; I'm suggesting that a redirect to thereal district containing the town of Khorugh is the best answer. It's reasonable to offer redirects from plausible wrong names. That doesn't constitute any claim that a district with this name exists. Am I missing some political dimension here? AlexTiefling (talk) 09:35, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * No, there are no hidden political dimensions here. If the final decision is going to be not to delete, then of course I will redirect (either to Khorugh or to Shughnon district – have to think about which is best). But I do not like this solution: I prefer not to clutter Wikipedia with names or concepts that are a priori wrong and, moreover, are not part of common usage anywhere. My recommendation/request remains delete. --Zlerman (talk) 09:53, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Don't redirect: as I'm not a Central Asian geography expert, I'm not going to say "delete", but either this article should be kept, or (assuming that the nominator is correct) the article should be outright deleted. There's no reason to have a title that (1) doesn't exist, and (2) is an unlikely redirect.  Nyttend (talk) 20:19, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: The only source I can find that confirms the existence of such a district is a news brief from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: . That brief seems to be poorly written and evidently confuses the hierarchy of district, city, etc. Avram (talk) 04:53, 22 September 2008 (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.