Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mazraeh-ye Jowzar


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 04:30, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Mazraeh-ye Jowzar

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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) 07:34, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. 4nn1l2 (talk) 07:34, 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)


 * Delete - Probably a farm, the sources relied on have proved unreliable for indicating whether a place is a legally recognised populated place as required by WP:GEOLAND. Specifically GEONet is run by the same people who run GNIS and therefore has all the same problems (particularly, places described as populated on GEONet need not be populated). The Iranian census was simply misrepresented/misunderstood by the creator. Finally, this is part of a pattern of behaviour by the creator spanning many thousands of articles so I urge the closer to take the fact that many more of these articles will be coming down the pipeline into consideration. FOARP (talk) 11:42, 5 April 2021 (UTC)


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