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


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 01:12, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

List of U.S. counties named after women

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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 17:44, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep I see that it was tagged in 2008 as "incomplete" but that doesn't justify deletion. Where are the multiple maintenance templates the nominator claims to exist? The etymologies of county names can typically be referenced to reliable sources, so a county being named for a woman can usually be verified. Dare County is named for Virginia Dare, per the county website. Hardly "speculative." I don't understand what is intended by the statement about merging it or adding it to some unidentified article. Such a list is a navigational aid, highlighting some aspect of the  information included in a collection of other articles about notable subjects. Edison (talk) 23:13, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - The topic for which I was able to find the most sources is something like "places named after women", many of which break that down into types of places including counties. The most expansive apears to be this book on the subject. If we had an article along the lines of U.S. places named after women I'd probably support a merge, but as we don't I think keeping this one is best (with the possibility of renaming/broadening scope later). --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 16:44, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep apparently sources are available - per the above comment - as one would expect on US subjects - and the subjects of toponymy and etymology are encyclopedic. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:38, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
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