Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Springs

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The result of the debate was DELETE except redirecting Clearwater Lake. Golbez 08:37, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander Springs and others

Alexander Springs, Big Scrub, Big Bass Lake, Clearwater Lake, Doe Lake, and Buck Lake are all campsites in a US National Forest. They are also single line stubs of the sort that used to be called substubs. The info has already been merged from all these articles as one section on the page on the forest. These should either be deleted or redirect to the Ocala National Forest article. Grutness...wha? 10:32, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Non notable Fornadan (t) 11:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Probably easiest, GFDL-wise, to redirect. Meelar (talk) 13:48, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect Clearwater Lake, Delete the rest. Information on campgrounds belongs with the article on Ocala National Forest. In addition to the campsite, Clearwater Lake is a geographical feature large enough to show up on my maps of Florida and thus my reluctance to delete it out of hand. --Allen3 ^talk 13:58, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

note: Another one just added (Lake Delancy). Grutness...wha? 14:15, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Most of these names are common for lakes in national forests, state forests, state parks, and so forth. If we put in a bunch of redirects, we'll soon need disambiguation pages by the dozen. Delete the substubs, weak redirect Clearwater Lake (perhaps with "(Florida)") per Allen3, but note that under that reasoning, all one needs is a more detailed map to justify hundreds of campground entries per state. Comment: I'm a hiker and would like having thousands of campgrounds and trails in WP, but the verifiability and maintainability and disambiguation issues would be substantial. Better to have them appear only in articles about each park or forest. Barno 14:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment I agree with Barno's reasoning on campground content. We should avoid redirects for campground names because they are so common Tobycat 05:18, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge or keep and disambiguate. --SPUI (talk) 05:50, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge or Keep and disambiguate. Redirects are cheap. Kappa 21:35, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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