Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nasa, Ghana


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The result was Keep per WP:SNOW. (non-admin closure) RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk) 16:53, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Nasa, Ghana

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Place doesn’t exist on Google Maps, and there is absolutely no coverage of it elsewhere (besides the book), and I don’t think that a book alone can verify whether the place is legally recognised. RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk) 10:39, 6 May 2020 (UTC) Guess I was too strict regarding the deletion criteria. Again. 🤦 RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk) 16:53, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk) 10:39, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ghana-related deletion discussions. RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk) 10:39, 6 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Being legally recognized is not the criteria since Wikipedia aims at being a gazateer. Anywhere that can be said to be "a very substantial town" at any point passes our notability guidelines, places do not have to be significant now. A book published by an academic publisher is a reliable source, even if the place has vanished without a modern trace.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:04, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Notability is not temporary. Clear pass of NPLACE. Smartyllama (talk) 12:08, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep: the book cited is available for preview on google books and shows multiple mentions. Clearly notable. Pam  D  12:10, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The Google Books link doesn't quite work - I have to click to move to next page and then go back. Can anyone here help and tweak the link? Pam  D  12:18, 6 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep - Passes WP:GEOLAND. Hog Farm (talk) 15:41, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Clearly notable. Nika2020 (talk) 15:50, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Very hard to search for because of some dumb space program, but the book seems verifiable, see the mention here: SportingFlyer  T · C  15:53, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment The fact that this ever got considered for nomination while we have articles on places in California that never were more than one house is a show of the extreme Amerocenticism and presentism of Wikipedia. The numbers are not clear, but it seems this place likely had more than 300 people at one point in the 19th-century. It had a mosque.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:34, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * keep notwithstanding JPL's gazetteer remakrs above. I have checked in GEONames, and they do have an entry for "Nasa" in Ghana, and it does locate to a village just slightly NW of the originally supplied coordinates (which were the same as GEONames but with the seconds dropped). Given that we have a source for a history and from the description, there's no reason to think they aren't the same place, so this seems verified enough. Unfortunately there appears to be a paucity of sources for Ghanaian geography (for example, from what I can see their census does not give numbers for villages— I could be wrong about though). Mangoe (talk) 16:57, 6 May 2020 (UTC)


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