Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rangitihi Survey District


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  20:13, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Rangitihi Survey District

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Survey districts appear to be districts for land ownership blocks - they have no administrative function and are never used outside their very narrow function. There are literally thousands of these in New Zealand and a precident that these are notable will lead to the inclusion of every one of these with no content other than coordinates. Wikipedia is not a directory. None of which other than this one have a page. The references used to support this do not really support the notability of the page. Reference 1 is for the Rangitihi survey district East of Taupo not in the Chathams. Reference two references a hill not a district. Referece 3 is in a specialised paper on geology and mentions it in passing. The creator of this page has obvously had to dig very deep for these questionable references so I suspect there are very very few out there supporting this page. Andrewgprout (talk) 19:14, 4 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 19:32, 4 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete I suspect these Survey Districts are pre-1950 and were only slightly more important than the modern topographical map areas, which are still without a page New Zealand Map grid. I can find no information that makes the ones on the Chatham Islands special. This survey district has almost no notability. A single page explaining NZ mapping history would be great, one page for every area from every historical iteration less so. (Dushan Jugum (talk) 19:30, 4 February 2019 (UTC)).
 * Delete. Even the term survey district isn't notable. Ajf773 (talk) 20:10, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete (and other NZ "survey district" articles, if any). "Survey districts" aren't notable enough for pages in Wikipedia. Ross Finlayson (talk) 22:14, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete (as above). General comment: User:Shevonsilva, who created this page has a record of generating thousands (literally thousands per month) of generally vacuous stub articles, presumably using software to read a page like this one - - to generate a stub for every entry in a column. See Paraná Department for example. Is this really the sort of editin that makes Wikipedia better, or more dilute? Imaginatorium (talk) 07:59, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * No problems with the creator. Paraná Department is a county of 5000 sqKm, population 350,000, it absolutely needs a comprehensive Wikipedia article, so starting one is a good thing.--Pontificalibus 13:49, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment I finally found what a Survey District is "With the abolition of the Provinces on 1 November 1876, a standard system of surveys was instituted. New Zealand was divided into twenty-eight geographical areas, termed Meridional Circuits. These areas were then divided into Survey Districts. A survey district was to be 122 miles (1,000 chains) square and divided into l6 blocks 3 miles (250 chains) square". (Dushan Jugum (talk) 19:17, 6 February 2019 (UTC)).
 * Delete Not notable. Will never be other than a weird stub.CoronaryKea (talk) 12:03, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge because Rangitihi Volcanics merit a mention in Chatham_Islands per and .--Pontificalibus  13:04, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, Pontificalibus, forgive the rant. I could write a PhD on Chatham Islands geology and never mention the survey district. The redirect would be there for people who want to know about the Rangitihi Volcanics, but don't know they are in the Chathams and don't know they are volcanics, but did know they are named after the 19th century Rangitihi survey district, this person does not exist (also these volcanics are not notable and not likley to be). It is also an invitation for hundreds of new redirects across New Zealand as geologists run out of names quickly and use some very unnotable things. (Dushan Jugum (talk) 19:30, 10 February 2019 (UTC)).


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