Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zambar, Iraq


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) MrScorch6200  (talk &#124; ctrb) 04:21, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Zambar, Iraq

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I think this is not a real place, or not a real name.

There is a city called Zummar near its proposed location but at the north of Tel Afar and north west of Mosul.

See... زمار

Mahmoudalrawi (talk) 02:02, 3 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep The Oil in the Middle East sources begs to differ as does the Geonames database. It is possible that it is called something else now but it's a verifiable settlement which are always kept. There's definitely something there when you zoom in on google earth, it looks if anything like an industrial facility, like for oil.♦ Dr. Blofeld  08:52, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Per . It's verifiable as required for geographic notability. Philg88 ♦talk 08:59, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I could not find anything on the village using Latin alphabet variants (Zambar, Zanbar, Sinbar) or the Arabic (زمبر). Zooming in on Bing maps gives better resolution than Google. There certainly is a small village at this location. Geonames, not necessarily reliable, shows a Zambar at this location and a Jabal Zambar ca. 525 m about 2km to the northeast. The village seems to lie on an intermittent stream draining the mountain. References in books to Jabal Zambar (oder Sinbar; 543 m) place the mountain in this area. Longrigg, 1967 refers to the Zambar structure, presumably Jabal Zambar rather than the village. So the mountain exists, the village probably exists at the location given, but there do not seem to be any reliable sources confirming it. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:31, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * There is a populated settlement at this location, whatever it is called though, and by a long way they're generally accepted on here.♦ Dr. Blofeld  16:05, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I started Jabal Zambar, which is certainly real. WP coverage of this area is dismal. In recent days ISIL has been very active in this area. Perhaps we should not be too anxious to delete relevant content, but should put more effort into improving what is there. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:41, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Does Mahmoudalrawi have any proof to indicate it is not called Zambar??♦ Dr. Blofeld  21:24, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Mahmoudalrawi (talk) 13:41, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, I could not find any thing about Zambar, I'm living in Baghdad but my family belong to Rawah in Anbar province. Zambar may be exist as a location. What is there? I have no idea. I found the page of Zambar when I was searching something about Zummar or Zumar which is a significant and important city in the north of Iraq which occupied by ISIS 2 days ago.
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iraq-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:39, 4 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 02:32, 11 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep per WP:GEOLAND and the nom's inability to support his or her claims. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:18, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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