Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tapa, Afghanistan


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The result was delete. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 16:20, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Tapa, Afghanistan

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The citations seem bogus and the author has been indeffed. Qwerfjkl talk  15:19, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Afghanistan-related deletion discussions.  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:19, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 15:22, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: I agree with nom that the citations do indeed seem bogus. In addition, it's impossible for a town to exist in the Karakum Desert in Samangan Province. — Danre98 ( talk ^ contribs ) 16:19, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: This place does seem to exist — Google Maps satellite data shows a very blurry settlement named Tapa at these coordinates — but I'm not sure if it meets notability requirements. The current article consists entirely of Google Maps-style information: this place exists, it's near these places, etc.


 * Apart from the bizarre claim that this place is located in the Karakum Dessert, all that information seems basically correct, but I'm not sure that either source in the article actually mentions this place. That would mean that the whole article is basically original research derived from looking at a map, which doesn't seem like a good basis for an article.


 * I don't know, maybe I would lean towards keeping it if the sources actually contained this information, and maybe I'm just being arbitrary (I've created plenty of place stubs myself), but I don't think we should have a bunch of articles for every place on Google Maps that only say "this place exists". 3 kids in a trenchcoat (talk) 22:03, 18 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Masterhatch (talk) 14:08, 25 September 2021 (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.