Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mazraeh-ye Fallahi


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 04:34, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Mazraeh-ye Fallahi

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Fails WP:GEOLAND:

First, it has the terms mazraeh or chah (farm or well respectively) in its names. Second, the population is less than 100 people and 20 families; Iranian villages must have a population of at least 100 people or 20 families according to the law.

It most probably is just an ābādī, not a village (deh).

What is the difference between an ābādī and a deh? According to Encyclopædia Iranica, "the Persian word deh has a more precise meaning than Persian ābādī “inhabited place,” which can refer to cities and towns, on one hand, and isolated farms (mazraʿa), on the other. A deh is a rural settlement perceived as an autonomous social and spatial unit."

Ābādī is a very generic and vague term. Today the statistical center of Iran uses this term in one of the following meanings: 1) village; 2) farm; 3) site [such as gas station, mine, water pump, etc].

See also
 * Articles for deletion/Mazraeh-ye Dariush Baharvand Ahmadi
 * Special:Permalink/1015725975 4nn1l2 (talk) 07:36, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. 4nn1l2 (talk) 07:36, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:05, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * I will write this only once but it applies to all of the "Mazraeh-ye" (fa:مزرعه) articles nominated at AFD today. An article that gives only three things &mdash; the original Persian name (titles here are transliterations not translations), some co&ouml;rdinates that point to blank spots or isolated houses on maps, and 2 sentences that state that this is a "village" with a low population &mdash; is a bad stub that misleads both readers and any future editors wanting to expand the article.  Yes, some houses can be notable, of course.  But how is an editor to know that when the article starts out telling xem that the subject is a populated village?  We could mass-correct these based upon the article titles alone, although that still leaves other articles that do not say "farm" or "pump" or "motor pump" or "well" in their titles.  That would at least give better context.  But that would still leave open the question of whether "Rezk Farm", for example, is a properly independently-reliably-multiply-documented-in-depth farm.  Uncle G (talk) 10:32, 3 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete - same thing as for all of Carlos’s other Iranian “village” articles, it appears to be a farm, no evidence that it’s a legally recognised populated place, fails WP:Geoland. FOARP (talk) 06:43, 7 April 2021 (UTC)


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