Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shoshongo Dum


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The result was delete. Inadequate sourcing and possibly a hoax. RL0919 (talk) 12:29, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Shoshongo Dum

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I wouldn't go as far as calling it a hoax but we have essentially only one sentence here, and this sentence cannot possibly be true: That it connects the Okavango River (which discharges into the Okavango Delta) with the Omuramba Omatako (which discharges into Etosha Pan, source).

The only source given (link) mentions "near Shoshongo Dum" in one footnote. Could be a place, could be a river, we don't know. A genealogy website mentions it, too, and links to a blog where the word does not occur.

So it is not established what it is, not where it is, and it is not on any map. Too little for an article, I think. --Pgallert (talk) 09:02, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Pgallert (talk) 09:02, 3 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - interestingly, one of the only mentions I can find of the river is this blog post which I strongly suspect is by the creator of the page (going off the username). If so, it seems as if even they are admitting they can't be certain if the river even existed, but thought it should have a Wikipedia stub due to the lack of other sources, which is rather backward logic. Either way, there's an almost total lack of any sources so, whether this is a hoax, or a kind of 'historic legend', or a genuine fact that we simply can't confirm, it doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Hugsyrup 10:28, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
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 * ’’’Delete’’’ Fails WP:V.--Pontificalibus 11:29, 9 September 2019 (UTC)


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