Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of U.S. counties named after other U.S. counties


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 00:08, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

List of U.S. counties named after other U.S. counties

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Uncourced material doesn't meet notability guide. At best this information could be a footnote in another article or articles on individual counties. Shabidoo | Talk 17:13, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete as WP:OR. Nobody else seems to have compiled such a list. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:40, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete Per WP:NOTADIRECTORY  Jay  Jay What did I do? 17:58, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep with changes Although the article is unsourced, it could be a valuable resource for those tracking etymologies. If sourced, this article should make it. Alexschmidt711 (talk) 14:12, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep etymology and toponymy is encyclopedic; being unsourced is not a reason for deletion, Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:35, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Unverified, speculative. Without verification this list is worse than worthless. --MelanieN (talk) 04:55, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - I'd have to see sources about the phenomenon of naming counties after other counties, otherwise we could create and random subset of a large list (list of counties that begin and end with the same letter, list of counties named after 16th century lower nobility, list of counties named after birds of prey, list of counties named after sons and daughters of prominent businesspeople...). Some of them may be interesting or even WP:USEFUL, but still not appropriate as they required WP:OR in their curation. --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 14:02, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
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