Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balabalagan Islands

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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 keep. John254 01:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Balabalagan Islands

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Non-notable, but mainly, completely unsourced. Rambutan (talk) 17:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete I did some searching and couldnt find any information about the islands. -Icewedge 17:49, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The islands apparently do exist, though there seems to be little information about them. There's no article at all on the Indonesian Wikipedia site. However, since the people here vote to keep articles on every town with a road sign, as with State Line, Pennsylvania, on the grounds that "every town is notable", then an island is more notable than a collection of houses in the middle of nowhere. Mandsford 19:22, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, geographic features such as islands are generally treated as notable. I have added references, including to alternate names, which will help anyone trying to source it further. --Dhartung | Talk 20:41, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Dhartung Kepulauan Balabalagan generates more hits, but Little Paternoster brought up this account from Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere by John Hawkesworth who was on James Cook's first voyage. A bit choppy, apparently. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 21:04, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
    • Correction actually it was a report of a voyage by a Captain Carteret in 1776-77, but still choppy. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 22:21, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Creating a Gazetteer of places and features of the world is a valid part of trying to create an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia we can attempt a gazetter of the entire planet,actually I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be an official Wiki-project Gazetteer project.KTo288 21:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Very Strong Keep Major geographical features are notable. Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary faithless (speak) 21:53, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment It has sources now.
  • Keep Is now sourced and agree that geographical features are generally notable. Davewild 07:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notable and sourced. J Milburn 13:37, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per most of the above.--JForget 23:37, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Geographical features as islands are notable. This should've been a case of WP:SOFIXIT instead of AfD. --Oakshade 04:30, 18 September 2007 (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.