Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places with only vowel A in their name


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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 04:57, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

List of places with only vowel A in their name

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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Such a list constitutes WP:LISTCRUFT because "A" being the only vowel in a word is not notable, unlike something like a Palindrome, which has the List of palindromic places. Yee no  (talk) 🍁 07:03, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  Yee no   (talk) 🍁 07:03, 7 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete Trivial list of a non-defining attribute. There must be thousands of places this applies to. I can think of at least half a dozen small villages near me, and I bet most other editors could think of similar locations too.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 07:31, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. So trivial and arbitrary my head aches. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:12, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Not appropriate for an encyclopaedia. pinktoebeans  (talk) 13:43, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Complete trivia.--🌀 Locomotive207 - talk  🌀  15:32, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete absolutely trivial. --Yoonadue (talk) 17:30, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTTRIVIA. Ajf773 (talk) 09:24, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:DELREASON: Any other content not suitable for an encyclopedia. Specifically, WP:Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. As has been noted by other editors above, this is not a defining characteristic. To get a sense of how common this is, I typed "Malma" into the search box, which led me to Malma, Nepal, which in turn transcludes Template:Baglung District. That template about one of the 77 districts of Nepal links to no fewer than ten places that qualify for inclusion on this list: Argal, Dhamja, Jaljala, Baglung, the aforementioned Malma, Nepal, Narayansthan, Rayadanda, Salyan, Baglung, Taman, Nepal, Tangram, Nepal, and Tara, Nepal. A second search for "Bara" turned up a list of no fewer than 27 places called "Bara" or some diacritic variation thereof. The previous assessment that there must be thousands of places like this seems likely to be correct (I'm sure it would be possible to write a script to check some database or other, such as GeoNames, if we really want to come up with a rough figure). With that in mind, it's difficult to see what WP:LISTPURPOSE this could possibly serve. TompaDompa (talk) 19:00, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. desmay (talk) 02:24, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, novel topic. Geschichte (talk) 08:16, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, obviously, though I must give points that it made me laugh. A funny idea to compile such a list (which, as noted by, would probably end up huge), but please on a personal website or blog. --LordPeterII (talk) 18:22, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not meant to indiscriminately list every possible thing that we could list. What next List of red haired kings?John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:58, 13 July 2021 (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.