Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures


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The result was   keep. Renaming can proceeding through normal channels. postdlf (talk) 00:09, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

List of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures

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Article is unsourced speculative information and doesn't meet notability. Templates for multiple problems have already been listed without any change. At best this information should be added to individual articles or merged into another list. Shabidoo | Talk 17:46, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep Several counties named after Jefferson Davis, for example, or Robert E Lee, are clearly named for the Confederates of those names. Here is a Georgia state government website stating that Jeff Davis County, Georgia, was named for the former president of the Confederacy. Here is a Louisiana state government site stating that Jefferson Davis County, Louisiana was named for the former Confederate president. A website of an association of Georgia Counties identifies the following Counties as named for identified Confederates: Cook, Evans, Lamar, Stephens, Toombs, Turner and Wheeler. It seems silly to call this "speculation." This may not be sourced at present in the article, but reliable sources exist for most counties stating where the name came from, often in the official website of the county or in history books. Adding references is preferable to deletion. We are not "on deadline" and it is unreasonable to require deletion if an article is not fully referenced, when references can be readily found.  Edison (talk) 21:09, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's controversial that there exist sources which explain that certain counties are named after certain Confederate historical figures. For a stand-alone article like this to exist, however, the subject of the list itself is what needs to show notability (e.g. articles about "counties named after confederate historical figures" rather than about specifics). --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 21:43, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You mean like the book"Georgia's Confederate Counties" by Barrow, from the Georgia Civil War Commission? It is about counties in Georgia named after Confederates. There are numerous reliable sources which discuss the historical origins of county names. Edison (talk) 21:49, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Yup. Just like that :) There are WP:BEFORE concerns here (and in the other 7-8 county name nominations, perhaps). --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 22:52, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment The nominator's claim " Templates for multiple problems have already been listed without any change" is false. It would be appropriate to withdraw the nomination and add a template requesting references. The history of the name of each county is generally included in the article about the county. The people of a county and state did not randomly name a county something because they thought the name sounded cool, without reference to any particular person or thing, and the name selection was part of the historical record in the state and in the county. Edison (talk) 21:49, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep -- This is a harmless list article. If some of the content is incorrect, that can be remedied by removing that content.  If it is merely unverified, the answer is to tag those items as needing a source.  WP content has to be verifiable, not verified.  Peterkingiron (talk) 13:41, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Rename to remove "Pominent" which is POV and SUBJ but otherwise: being unsourced is not a reason for deletion. etymology and toponymy are encyclopedic. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:36, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
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