Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midzemuthleiy, Delaware


 * 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--Ymblanter (talk) 08:05, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Midzemuthleiy, Delaware

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The author has created several articles or redlinks for placenames ostensibly in a small area of northern Delaware. Around the same time, the same places were added to OpenStreetMap; many of them contain(ed) the element "leiy", e.g., "Midzemuthleiy", "Wilzemuthleiy", "La Leies Woods". A few seem to have been submitted to Google Maps as well; none are present in Bing Maps that I can see. Confusing matters, the author has created a few articles on obscure and subsumed villages that seem to be legitimate. I have proposed a number that seem to be hoaxes for deletion; this one had already been PRODded. Needless to say, none of them can be found in US GNIS, historic maps (e.g., from historicmapworks.com), local histories, and other places where they would be expected to appear. In the case of the Delaware ones like this, I have also checked the county GIS maps, which include subdivision names, and they are also absent. Choess (talk) 00:28, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2014 December 10.  — cyberbot I  Notify Online 00:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:59, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.   -Fim atic   (talk &#124; contribs) 03:05, 10 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete I can find no evidence that this place exists. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  09:08, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not in Geonames, not in Bing Maps, not found by the search facility of Google Maps. To my surprise, you can actually see this word on Google Earth - this and a few other names appear in italic all-caps, unlike other location names such as Barkley. Searching around, I don't see this style of place-name anywhere except for this one small cluster, so I still think it's a hoax, though I didn't know things could be added to Google Maps like that


 * Anyway, whether hoax or not, that one appearance of the word is not enough to satisfy WP:V or WP:N. The practice at previous AfDs, documented at WP:OUTCOMES has been that neighborhoods are kept only if "their names are found to have verifiable widespread usage" or they are "legally separate municipalities or communes (e.g., having their own governments)". That is clearly not the case here. JohnCD (talk) 10:10, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't be surprised if Google Maps is pulling that data from us, since the article's geotagged. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 00:07, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * The Google Maps entry shows boundaries. It also shows coordinates that are slightly different from the Wikipedia article. That data probably didn't come from us. • Gene93k (talk) 00:36, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * A bit of searching tells me that Midzemuthleiy was a place in OpenStreetMap until a few days ago, when Choess deleted it there (though it still shows up in some Google archives). That seems like a more likely source, and other wikis don't pass WP:V. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 04:00, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * FWIW, the OSM data was all point data; I'm pretty sure the Google Maps polygon must have been uploaded directly to there. Choess (talk) 19:20, 11 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete for failing WP:V. No evidence found for this place passing WP:NGEO. Local name or outright hoax, it's not notable. • Gene93k (talk) 10:28, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence that this place exists, not counting the word in Google Maps (which, as I said above, might be coming from us) - and a glaring lack of mentions of this place in resources where you'd expect to see it. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 00:07, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete: Its fairly clear every article this editor created was a hoax.  Unless someone finds old USGS maps showing the existence of these locations, they should all be deleted.  It is not hard to find legitimate sources for remote locations int he United States.--Milowent • hasspoken  20:11, 11 December 2014 (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.