Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waghinzoy


 * 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. v/r - TP 16:17, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Waghinzoy

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Page created with. Blatant violation of WP:VER Bulwersator (talk) 08:23, 8 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - this doesnt mean that we are supposed to delete it.  Yash  t  101   09:00, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Tajikistan-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 15:16, 9 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment. The coordinates in the article lead to a satellite image of a mountain ridge with no sign of any buildings, abandoned or otherwise. Phil Bridger (talk) 15:30, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2012 May 15.  Snotbot   t &bull; c &raquo;  05:34, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Might exist, though the coordinates are probably wrong as Phil Bridger mentions. You won't find much searching by the Yaghnobi spelling even for places that verifiably exist, so that's probably not much help. The Russian spelling would probably be "Вагинзой", which gets a hit in a photo caption in a an article about the Yaghnob Valley in Russian travel magazine Vokrug sveta . There's also a hit on a Russian map-sharing site ; if you download the map and look in file j-42-031 in map square 40/03, there's a village listed "Вахинзой" (at least I think that's an "х", but it's hard to tell; that spelling doesn't get any further web hits). Under the English spelling "Vaginzoi", a paper claiming to be from the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences mentions a mountain by this name.


 * On the other hand, a student of Saifiddin Mirzozoda (the guy who wrote the dictionary that's cited in the article) put up a copy and English translation of the dictionary on his website. The placenames section is here:, and this place isn't listed. But that may simply mean his electronic version is incomplete. Eric Baer (talk) 06:53, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep Ya beat me to it, Eric: yeah, a Russian spelling of it is "Вагинзой" and a Google Books search for that turns up five hits with several appearing in a list of the other Yaghnob Valley villages. Adding Вагинзой to article and a new search template above... now Google News gives us a site that offers a map of Tajikistan with Waghinzoy on it for $4. --❨Ṩtruthious ℬandersnatch❩ 07:27, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - Wikipedia also functions as a Gazeteer, a geographical dictionary or directory. (See: WP:5). Northamerica1000(talk) 11:02, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note, it was not nominated due to problems with notability. Bulwersator (talk) 19:12, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Northamerica1000's point doesn't have to do with notability either. Your nomination reason appears to be lack of verifiability, but there isn't any such problem: all of the information in the article is of a type that can be verified and we have verified some of it.  Verifiability isn't a matter of whether or not you can verify it personally, it's about whether the kind of information in an article is one that can't be verified by anyone, like some kinds of original research, scientific assertions that are untestable, or historical assertions about things that were never recorded in any manner and thus cannot be checked. --❨Ṩtruthious ℬandersnatch❩ 19:31, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - An article topic only "fails" WP:VER if it is unverfiable, not currently unverfied. As noted above, it's a real place.--Oakshade (talk) 23:22, 20 May 2012 (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.