Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tolombeh-ye Mohammad Shafi


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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 06:57, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Tolombeh-ye Mohammad Shafi

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Fails WP:GEOLAND#1 as it is not a legally-recognised populated community (such as, e.g., an incorporated town), and also fails WP:GNG as there is no evidence of significant coverage in reliable sources. Part of a violation of WP:MASSCREATE/WP:MEATBOT by Carlossuarez46 - see this ARBCOM case for details and this talk page discussion where Farsi-speaking editors explained to Carlos why the creation of these articles was a mistake.

The name means literally "Mohammed Shafi's Pump" - pumps are very common land-marks in Iran due to its dryness and are not necessarily associated with villages. Sources are GEONet Names Server (which is unreliable) and the Iranian Census, which (as explained in the above-linked talk-page discussion) simply counts people around a named location that need not be a community of any kind and can be e.g., a teahouse, farm, factory, petrol station, oil rig, railway station, or pump. The article comes with co-ordinates, but the co-ordinates are an empty field roughly equidistant between two large farms/small villages (it is impossible to tell from the satellite view which they are). The location is part of the larger village of Anbarābād which is in a totally different county, not even a neighbouring one, to Arzuiyeh County where this supposed "village" is supposed to be.

NB. - an FA wiki version of this article exists but it is cited to the English wikipedia article, which shows just how dangerous this kind of fake article can be as it leads to the creation of fake on-map locations through citogenesis. Arguments that this kind of article is "harmless" are completely wrong and a common Wiki-fallacy. FOARP (talk) 07:58, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Iran. FOARP (talk) 07:58, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete depressing that editors are still labouring to clear out years worth of rubbish from Carlossuarez46. Mccapra (talk) 12:22, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. . –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 22:40, 26 July 2022 (UTC)


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