Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States towns with the same name as subnational regions


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The result was   delete.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 00:40, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

List of United States towns with the same name as subnational regions

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This is a non-notable article due to the entirely trivial content of the article. The vast majority of the names of the "sub-national regions" share names due to coincidental reasons. For example, Florida, Missouri, a village of 9 people, has nothing to do with Florida. Other entities share the same name due to being named after the same thing such as the Washington cities and Washington all being named after George Washington. Also, it is impossible to be complete due do what could be considered in the list. Should Ohio Key be added, for example? All in all, these just boil down to being a trivial intersection point, and while it may be interesting, falls short of the notability line. Tavix | Talk  04:27, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Places are named after other places, especially in colonies and former colonies. I also don't think that Lakes, Alaska, Unity, Maine, Unity, New Hampshire, Unity, Oregon, and Unity, Wisconsin are named after a place in Sudan. In fact, I don't think they are named after any other places. This list is indiscriminate. Abductive  (reasoning) 05:50, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Agreed, this article is nothing more then trivia. The subject is not notable. --Pstanton (talk) 06:17, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete if this was a list of places named specifically for other places, with proof and reasons given in the articles, it could be of some interest. but this list is not that, and is the very definition of trivia.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 07:02, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete for the above reasons, plus Wp is not a home for indiscrimate lists. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess) | (talk to me) | (What I've done)  10:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It even has several glaring omissions. One might forgive neglecting Nebraska City, Nebraska, but When you forget New York City, NY...  Googlemeister (talk) 17:40, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Delete It's kind of fun, and would make a great game on a long car trip (or it would have forty years ago), but it doesn't work as an encyclopedia article, especially as written.  It would have been easy to research-- basically, you time in "Alabama," in the search box and make sure you add the comma and you get all the towns named Alabama.  At least the title was correct, since it doesn't imply that any of these places were named after a state or province.  Mandsford (talk) 18:22, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I hate to say it, but delete. I added a lot of the places on the list, and it's an interesting list, but ultimately I have to agree that it's trivia and has gotten rather indiscriminate with the addition of all the foreign countries. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 23:58, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, per WP:IINFO. -- The Anome (talk) 00:00, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is really interesting to me, but it clearly violates WP:IINFO, and I would need convincing that some students would need it for research despite the guidelines. Bearian (talk) 01:27, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep The article need not be complete to be encyclopedic. It provides the encyclopedic information that in the United States, people often named towns after the places the majority of the residents came from. There should be at least one article with such a list. People from Paducah, Kentucky moved to Texas and named the town Paducah, Texas. People from many towns in Ireland, Germany, Scotland, England, Holland, etc moved to the US and named towns after a place back home. This is not a common practice in most countries of the world. I would support aiming the article toward such a referenced origin for the place names, as Mercurywoodrose described above, and removing those which are coincidental. Edison (talk) 03:02, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * If someone wanted to make such an article, I think that there would be support for it. There was no research done to make this particular article, not even to the extent of clicking on an article to find out why a little town in New York would be called "Alabama".  All that was done was someone running the search engine and saying, "Hey, there's a California, Kentucky; and a California, Pennsylvania; and a California, Ohio; etc. etc.   I guess that people could differ as to whether this is an "indiscriminate list"; if it isn't, it's pretty close, with no information beyond the blue links.  I have to disagree with you about the origins of these place names being from people who moved there from other lands.  In most cases, someone established a post office and the postmaster had to submit a name.  For obvious reasons, it's not a common practice in the "old world"; it does happen in other countries (e.g., Cordoba, Argentina; Cartagena, Colombia; Liverpool, NSW, Australia; etc.).  We have far more articles about American small towns than about the small towns of the rest of the world.  Anyway, if someone wants to make a start by dropping the ones with no explanation for the name -- (start with all the towns named "Washington", none of which are named for the State of Washington) -- and dropping a line for those where there's a history for the name-- I'm all in support of something that is both "fun" and "well-referenced".  Mandsford (talk) 14:17, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd support a well-referenced page too and would be willing to work on it, but it would need a different name and a narrower scope. That would be a notable topic, but the current list tends to be indiscriminate (I noticed the Washingtons too, and most of the smaller countries have the same problem). TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 00:51, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem is how can you make an article like this well-referenced? Tavix | Talk  01:09, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Changing my vote from above. Just as easy to start a new article on towns in the US named for another place, such as the place residents came from. In many cases, the local histories clearly state that people from X came to America and named their town after the old country, county, or city. I agree that the list seems to include some questionable and undocumented coincidental namings. As an example, here is a reference for Paducah, Texas being named after Paducah, Kentucky. There are many books referencing the origin of U.S. place names, such as .Birmingham, Kentucky was named for Birmingham England, per . Such an article would inevitably start out incomplete, since there are many thousands of such "named after" towns, and patrolling would be necessary to keep out people's intuitive etymologies. Bagdad, Kentucky appears not to be named for the Iraq city, for instance: more likely, a man with a speech impediment sounded like "bagdad" when he said "Granddad.".Edison (talk) 16:48, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Cute but trivial. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 03:46, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Cute? Really? I've never heard of an article that was "cute" before... (besides the obvious.) Tavix | Talk  22:36, 17 November 2009 (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.