Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of county names in the U.S. in use with only one county


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The result was   delete. Valley2 city ‽ 04:52, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Lists of county names in the U.S. in use with only one county

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Seems to me a rather indiscriminate and unsourced list of trivia. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 00:05, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per reasons given in nomination, and as fundamentally unencyclopedic content. - DustFormsWords (talk) 00:57, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment It's an interesting list. Given the number of Union, Jefferson, Lincoln, etc. counties shared between states, a list of unique names might well be useful/informative/interesting.  OTOH, just looking at Iowa, I see 26 names here out of 99 counties, so while the unique names are a distinct minority, they're not at all rare.  There's a LOT of names in this list, and it's simply a list.  Personally, I'd lean toward keep, but I'm rather more partial to lists than the Wiki consensus is.David V Houston (talk) 01:41, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Sadly Wikipedia's guidelines for content don't make allowance for content on the basis of it being "interesting". WP:SALAT and WP:NOT are the relevant guidelines for lists; they're fairly forgiving but they do require the list to be neither too short or (relevantly here) too long, to have some potential value to either research or navigation, and to be content that might reasonably be expected to be found in an encyclopaedia.  That's a triple fail for this list. - DustFormsWords (talk) 02:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.  -- NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 03:27, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- NotAnonymous0 did I err?|Contribs 03:27, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, an indiscriminate list with a non-notable inclusion criterion. J I P  | Talk 03:57, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, The list could be used to create something more useful; however, in it's current form it has no real purpose. Coopman86 (talk) 04:57, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, per WP:LC items 1-4. Stifle (talk) 09:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOTDIRECTORY. --TorriTorri(Talk to me!) 09:34, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is horrible; it's as notable as "List of county names where 'i' is the second letter." &mdash; Timneu22 · talk 14:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * WP:BEANS. Stifle (talk) 15:57, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Awesome. WP has WP:SOMETHING for any situation. &mdash; Timneu22 · talk 16:11, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Pointless list. Like "Counties which are named after animals" or "Counties named after countries." I removed two sets of ineligible entries (where the same county name showed up in 2 states). There is no reason whatever that one state would not name a county with the same name as another. They never got together and divided up names among states. "Uniquely named counties" are in no way unusual, nor are "shared name counties." The odd thing is how many of these counties are quite familiar from having been there or read about them. Edison (talk) 14:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I appreciate the effort that was put into this by the article's author, but like everyone else, I can't really see any use for this bit of "American county trivia". I live in a county whose name is shared by only one other county, which is somewhat interesting to me and to some of the residents of the two different places, but it's not that interesting.  Even within an individual county's article (such as "Abbeville County is the only county in America with that name") it's not that interesting.  I think that WP:SNOW is on the horizon, and that this article looks like it is about to parish.  Mandsford (talk) 15:08, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete The article has no sources, original research and has not been added to any cats. --Andromedabluesphere440 (talk) 18:42, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per WP:NOT. Joe Chill (talk) 22:49, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * SNOW Delete List based on obviously arbitrary/random intersection; fails list content standards. --Cyber cobra (talk) 06:47, 2 May 2010 (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.