Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Srirampur, Mysore


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The result was   keep. If later research determines a better spelling for the name, no predjudice against a rename. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:03, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Srirampur, Mysore

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This is a procedural nomination. I can't figure out if this place exists or, if it does, what its correct name is (the article title has one word as the place name, whereas the opening sentence splits it into two words). Assuming it exists, I'll leave the issue of notability up to others as my vague memory is that the threshold for notability of places is so low as to almost be parallel to the floor. Bbb23 (talk) 18:40, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:00, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Comment Google Maps has it as Srirampura, which does seem to be a smallish outer suburb of Mysore - it therefore certainly exists. From past experience, the threshold for notability of this kind of place is that it isn't just a name dreamed up by some real-estate developer last week - GHits include enough postal addresses to suggest that it is probably rather more than this, but I haven't found any properly solid evidence. PWilkinson (talk) 16:23, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Comment. My ceiling is also almost parallel to the floor, but it's not particularly low. Pedantry aside, I agree the threshold of notability of place names is far too low, and we end up with e.g. thirty-six thousand French commune stubs with very little hope of anything interesting ever being said about most of them, or even the information being kept up-to-date. I presume most of these articles were auto-generated many years ago? e.g. to pick one from that category at random, Aigné was created in 2008 and since then has only been edited by bots, and consists of exactly one sentence beyond reference, infobox, etc. Hungarian settlements are also like this a lot e.g. Kóka, and I imagine similarly for many other countries, those countries are just two that I have a special interest in. I happen to have visited Kóka and it's a nice enough ordinary little place, but it only becomes encyclopaedic if there is something interesting to say about it beyond what you would find in a comprehensive atlas. Which is telling: at WP:NOT there is not a single mention of "atlas", nor does WP:NOTATLAS exist. What is not prohibited is allowed, which is why we get this burden of atlas entries on places of no particular interest. Si Trew (talk) 08:03, 22 January 2014 (UTC) 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 01:13, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep I see no reason, why a suburb of Mysore should not have an article. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 05:29, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep, real place (which is the criteria for inclusion of geographic locations at Wikipedia), turns up many hits on google books search. As always with AFDs on Indian article, one must try different spellings in Latin script, this place can be written as Sriramapura, Shri Ramapur, Sriramapur, Shrirampur, etc. There is no right or wrong transliteration from Indic scripts to Latin scripts. --Soman (talk) 17:06, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep These are always so tricky. I would recommending keeping it under WP:NPLACE (a populated neighbourhood) and the issue over the name could eventually be fixed via a redirect or editorial changes. Mkdw talk 04:53, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Mysore. If there's ever enough to be said to justify a standalone article it can be restored but until then a redirect is probably best. Suburbs are often not formally defined and therefore difficult to cover in an encyclopedia. --Michig (talk) 07:16, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - Does not appear to be a political jurisdiction or have any other notable characteristics that would warrant a separate page from Mysore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wieno (talk • contribs) 06:05, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
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