Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shahbazpur Town


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The result was delete. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 16:32, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Shahbazpur Town

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This article was created recently by sockpuppet MargNely. I tagged it for speedy deletion under WP:G5. The tag was removed by an IP editor.

It is a POV fork of Shahbazpur, Brahmanbaria (an article created by the sockmaster in 2014), about the same settlement. Any additional, reliably sourced, information about the place should be added there.

Shahbazpur Town should not be retained as a redirect because "Town" is not part of the name of the settlement and "Town" is not a validly formatted disambiguator. There is also substantial evidence that the settlement is a village, not a town. Article Shahbazpur, Brahmanbaria calls it a village, but whether it calls it a village or a town isn't particularly important to me, so long as none of the other information about the place is bogus.

There is no reliably sourced non-duplicative information to merge.

--Worldbruce (talk) 17:15, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. Worldbruce (talk) 17:15, 16 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment: see also Shahbazpur Union, Sarail, apparently the same place. In previous incarnations before being deleted, Shahbazpur Town was a redirect to that article.  Lithopsian (talk) 19:21, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Socks have created numerous variations on this article under different names, have hijacked articles about other places, and have moved and redirected with abandon, so it is time consuming to understand and clean up their mess. Shahbazpur, Brahmanbaria is the largest of the five villages within Shahbazpur Union, Sarail (a union being a 4th level administrative division in Bangladesh). The relationship between the two articles is similar to that of Los Angeles to Los Angeles County, so it's okay for Wikipedia to have articles about both, although with only 4,115 households, Shahbazpur is no Los Angeles, and there isn't much to say about either it or its surrounding union. --Worldbruce (talk) 21:49, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. No reliable sources to support this being a separate settlement. They have been very active creating versions of this article in multiple languages. I clicked on a news site about the expansion of the satellite town and the domain no longer exists.... —МандичкаYO 😜 09:39, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 13:44, 18 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Speedy merge No evidence these are two different places. Reywas92Talk 19:20, 18 February 2020 (UTC)


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