Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Napakiak, Alaska

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 speedy keep since this discussion has zero chance of resulting in deletion if prolonged. As Daniel Olsen points out, towns such as this will, by their very natures, be the subjects of multiple, independent, non-trivial published works, and thus satisfy the primary notability criterion. The article itself at the time of nomination cited one of them (a census report) and now cites two more (a community history, and a publication by Tanadgusix Corporation), thanks to TruthbringerToronto. (Good work.) If you see a town article with only a census citation, follow the example that TruthbringerToronto set here, find more published works about the town, and improve the article. Uncle G 10:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Napakiak, Alaska

Non-notable town with only ~350 residents. Supermath 02:41, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Aren't all towns notable per WP policy? If this is not the case, someone please leave me a message. I've been wrong on policy before.  :) WatchingYouLikeAHawk 02:46, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Yes. It's mentioned here.—Mitaphane _talk 03:07, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. All towns are notable. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 02:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep. The primary rationale of Notability is "In order to have a verifiable article, a topic must be notable enough that it will be described by multiple independent reliable sources." Any real place like a town will automatically have real information out there, just check google. --Daniel Olsen 02:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep, sorry, but any town is notable, especially any town in Alaska regardless of size. You do realize this is out in the middle of nowhere, don't you? They're not likely to have a Walmart Supercenter.Alba 03:27, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy keep. Town/city. --- RockMFR 03:28, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per precident. Resolute 05:55, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and close the discussion before more people waste time here. Tobyk777 06:04, 11 October 2006 (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.