Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/West Essex


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The result was keep, basically WP:SNOW at this point. bd2412 T 21:03, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

West Essex

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Fails WP:NGEO. West Essex is neither a legal designation nor a name commonly used. A search of reliable sources only shows the name "West Essex" used in reference to the West Essex Regional School District. The existence of the school district does not mean there is a "West Essex", that would be WP:SYNTH. Also, this was deprodded without any explanation at all by User:Andrew Davidson. Rusf10 (talk) 23:56, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 23:56, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 23:56, 19 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep We have lots of geographical names based on compass points like this such as Southern California or the West End. There will always be a sensible alternative to deletion in such cases as we always have the option of merging into the full region, of which this is a quadrant.  In this case, there seems to be a reasonable level of usage as we have other articles like West Essex Park and West Essex Trail.  The clincher is that there's an entire book about the place. Andrew D. (talk) 09:24, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. (Nominator mentions "legal designation" w/o providing a policy for what that means or why it is relevant. Nominator makes claim "nor a name commonly used", which is an opinion). Djflem (talk) 10:11, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Names based on compass points are acceptable.TH1980 (talk) 11:05, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge Essex_County,_New_Jersey could certainly have a bit that says "These towns in the western part of the county are known as West Essex, etc, etc". Reywas92Talk 19:55, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Whether or not West Essex is a legally recognized place or a place without legal recognition is irrelevant as long as the article can be sourced to meet WP:GNG. I have just added two cite books, and neither of these two mention West Essex in reference to West Essex Regional School District, quite contrary to the statement in the nomination "reliable sources only shows the name "West Essex" used in reference to the West Essex Regional School District". WP:ATD is policy and should be followed, including a proper WP:BEFORE, prior to starting an AFD discussion. Sam Sailor 08:26, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Really weak sources. The term "West Essex" is used exactly once in each book (not counting references to the school district) and there is no explanation of exactly what it is or which town are included. You can't write an article on something that is undefined unless you're using WP:SYNTH--Rusf10 (talk) 14:51, 24 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep per Andrew. Also it looks like passes WP:NPLACE. Masum Reza 📞 06:08, 26 June 2019 (UTC)


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