Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/List of places in Kent


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was keep by strong consensus. Xoloz 19:40, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

List of places in Kent
Yeah, I know what you're going to say - this should be at AfD. But look at it. This page, in article space, consists mainly of a category redirect. Surely shomefing not right there... Grutness...wha?  06:59, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Looking at the page history, it appears that this used to be a list, that the list was converted to a category (presumably using information from this page) and that this page was converted to a redirect as a way of preserving the attribution history. I don't see that as a great reason to keep this particular article but on the other hand, redirects are cheap.  I'm ambivalent.  Rossami (talk) 19:17, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. A usefull way of keeping the history and directing people. --Bduke 22:31, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep I could see deletion doing unintended harm, whereas maintaining the status quo is no burden. No compelling reason to delete, so call this a default keep. Xoloz 17:01, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - nominator's point aside, this really should be in AfD... but no harm having it here. BD2412  T 20:55, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong keep because there is List of places in England which then shows pages for counties such as List_of_places_in_Cornwall. List of places in Kent needs to be brought up to this standard. It is useful having a list. Categories only show the places which have an article. Tyrenius 01:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong keep per Tyrenius. Computerjoe 's talk 17:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per Tyrenius. Kimchi.sg | talk 08:57, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per Tyrenius. --Ter e nce Ong 13:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per Tyrenius, just so long it it really is a list of all the places - the Cornwall list took all its entries from the Gazeteer of Cornwall and therefore is more than just the main towns and villages: it includes all the places (whatever that may mean - a place is, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, simply a location, so should include anything marked on a map!) in that county. Surely by deleting this one it breaks away from the mould of other counties? I have put forward a comment to Village pump (policy) under the heading of Use of the term "place", incidentally. Peter Shearan 07:11, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


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