Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/South B


 * 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 keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Consensus for notability, and sources linked show clearly meeting GEOLAND. (non-admin closure) AviationFreak💬 15:21, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

South B

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Article has been flagged as "local" for more than a decade with little improvement. I wasn't able to find anything substantive on Google, though the name may be complicating that search. I would normally suggest merging to Makadara, which is also barely a stub, but the material (e.g. list of hospitals) isn't cited anyway. Matt Deres (talk) 13:03, 18 June 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 06:58, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Kenya.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 13:16, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nominator.DarkHorseMayhem (talk) 14:40, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 08:46, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. South B is a legally recognised populated place and so has a presumption of notability under WP:GEOLAND. "South B" has two entries in the Kenyan census of 2019 Vol. II Distribution of Population by Administrative Units, page 239 (download at https://www.knbs.or.ke/publications/). One gives a population of 102,441; the other, a divison of this, gives a population of 34,216. Based on what's written, I believe this article is referring to the smaller place. The article states South B is an estate, when perhaps it should be described as a district or suburb of Nairobi. Not a good idea to merge to Makadara as that article appears to be about a nearby area. Rupples (talk) 03:42, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Relisting comment: Final relist. I'd like to hear from more editors who are familiar with WP:GEOLAND. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:34, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: Geoland does not automatically make every un-notable but legally defined location notable. Per nominator.  Chamaemelum  (  talk  ) 04:51, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Modification to uncertain or weak delete. Sirfurboy and others have convinced me that maybe geoland does indeed automatically make every un-notable but legally defined location notable.  Chamaemelum  (  talk  ) 18:52, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep - I am a little reluctant to pander to what can be an overly broad understanding of GEOLAND, but there is a longstanding consensus that Wikipedia is a Gazetteer, per WP:GAZ, which is where the GEOLAND guidelines come from. So this location is deemed notable for a page as long as it is a legally recognised populated place, and perhaps even if it is just a named populated place. South B is recognised, and there is plenty of information about it. It gets mentioned frequently in the Kenya Gazette  and here it is in French language press: . You can see the district bounds on Google Maps, and googling  confirms it is a recognised district. I found various references to it in terms of slum improvement too, e.g., . Thus this clearly meets GEOLAND's low bar of recognition. Still, Wikipedia is not indiscriminate, and an often ignored part of GEOLAND is to consider whether this could be merged with a broader article. The appropriate article in this case would be Nairobi, but I think there is a good case that the Nairobi article is large enough and that district articles should thus be child pages. There may be a possibility of a district aggregation article that this could be merged with, but such an article does not exist. Thus, with no appropriate merge target, and also as per Rupples, this is a keep. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 07:37, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. Okoslavia (talk) 03:29, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep It's clear from a couple web searches - once you get past all the real estate listings - that this is a notable Nairobi neighbourhood/place, even if it's not immediately obvious from the article. A novel, a parliamentary discussion all come up quite quickly. SportingFlyer  T · C  13:51, 11 July 2023 (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.