Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of misleading place names


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was Delete. Carlossuarez46 22:36, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

List of misleading place names

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This page is redundant in concept with the set of pages Multiple-place names; a minor point is that the Wikipedia-namespace page set is far more complete than the article being nominated for deletion. Also, the content of the nominated page is a collection of partial disambiguation page contents and is therefore more misleading of the state of ambiguity than Multiple-place names, which provides links to disambiguation pages. User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 23:21, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: per nom and as listcruft. - Kneel17 23:55, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- Bduke 00:27, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. I note that this article has had over 500 edits and has existed for two years. I think we need rather good reasons to delete it and these have not been given. The problem with something in the Wikipedia name space such as Multiple-place names is that most general readers will not find it. --Bduke 00:29, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment But in the same token, what's the point of using this article when most of the time you are redirected to a disambiguation page? Or are able to reach it after reaching the main article? When would a normal reader come in contact with this unless they purposefully search for the article? - Kneel17 00:44, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * A quick look at a few links suggests that "most of the time you are redirected to a disambiguation page" is exaggerating the matter. I would guess that in some cases hitting the search button in WP would bring the reader to this page. Note that I have had nothing to do with this page. However, as I noted, lots of editors have over a long period of time, and I'm inclined to trust their judgement. Deleting this would not really improve Wikipedia and it does not harm the project. It is not against policy. --Bduke 01:07, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. The nominated article, List of misleading place names, has been around since June 2005. The set of pages that I suggest make this nominated article unnecessary/redundant, Multiple-place names, has been around since Sept 2002. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 02:07, 22 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. This would be a very hard to verify list, seeing as "Misleading" would be very difficult to agree on a definition for. I mean, is it "misleading" that neither Saginaw, Michigan nor Bay City, Michigan are actually on Saginaw Bay? Is it "misleading" that Michigan has an Omer and a Homer? Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 01:12, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete misleading is a very subjective thing.  What's misleading to somebody may not be misleading to somebody else, so I think this is pretty much WP:OR Corpx 03:15, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete; I was planning on nominating this list myself, on the basis that this is Original Research; the intro states "place names that are likely to mislead", which is a subjective criterion. How misleading is Jupiter, Florida for example? Has anyone ever driven through Jupiter, Florida and believed they were on the planet Jupiter, due to the "misleading" name? Or has anyone gone to Italy, Texas hoping to see the Colosseum, because they were misled? Also "other places that are much better known", where do we draw the line at how much better known the other places have to be? More original research is needed to decide. Slightly interesting, but will never be anything but WP:OR. Masaruemoto 03:21, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment It's neither here nor there ~ Infrangible 03:26, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as hopeless WP:OR. I wish I could save this article from itself, somehow, by tweaking the scope or whatnot, but I can't see how it would work. It's a fun idea for a list, it just isn't encyclopedic. Maybe some sort of geography wiki could adopt it. --Dhartung | Talk 06:48, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as worthless crap. Bigdaddy1981 08:45, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I was hoping I'd like this, but it's essentially a list of towns with "famous names". I agree with Masaruemoto on this one, other than the idea that it is even "slightly" interesting.  I did drive through Jupiter, Florida, and saw a big red spot, their name for their red light district. Mandsford 00:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above; it's poorly worded. Bearian 19:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom., and as WP:OR and listcruft.--JayJasper 15:32, 25 July 2007 (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.