Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of U.S. counties that share names with U.S. states


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 16:26, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

List of U.S. counties that share names with U.S. states

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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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 * Oppose. Nominator has not specified which information is speculative. Nominator also says that templates for multiple problems have been listed without any change, yet there are no such templates in the most recent version nor in the the recent versions I sampled.  YBG (talk) 23:38, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. What a mess. The Washington counties aren't named after the state, but rather the president, so there's only an indirect connection. What are parishes and municipalities doing in this list? Columbia wasn't a state, the last time I looked (no District of Columbia County). And most importantly, nobody else seems to have made this connection, so WP:OR applies. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:10, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The municipalities and parishes are all county equivalents. Admittedly, the title should probably say 'county equivalents' instead of 'counties'. YBG (talk) 23:17, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not seeing sources showing this particular grouping to be notable. --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 16:25, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete unlike the others, this list is pure accident of naming without regard to whether the county was named for the state or vice versa or one or more Washingtons were honored in different places at different times. Without that connection, it's more trivia than toponymy, like Category:Counties with more vowels than consonants and Category:Counties with names that can be typed with the left hand only and other such would be... Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:42, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Too funny! But it is not a mere accident. There should be documentation for more than just 'Owyhee'.  YBG (talk) 23:17, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
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