Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charlotteville Township, Ontario

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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 eh, per WP:SNOW. SkierRMH (talk) 08:58, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Charlotteville Township, Ontario

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Does not meet WP:N and article claims it is defunct and no longer exists, not sure it ever could be considered notable. Possibly a partial hoax. Collectonian (talk) 03:02, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep This guy has added what seems to be a lot of junk to wikipedia,... but... there is a good chance this is legit. Maybe this should be brought to the attention of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ontario? DMighton (talk) 04:28, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep: Assuming it is true. Avoiding the WP:WAX lecture, there are plenty of articles about defunct townships and consensus seems to steer toward the "keep" direction. - Rjd0060 (talk) 04:48, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete If it existed into 2000 as the article implies, I'd think that there'd be more than 9 hits for it online. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 05:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per WP:OUTCOMES, physical locations such as townships are generally notable. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 13:42, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep There are 128 google hits for "Charlotteville, Ontario", many of them with that place listed as a birthplace or deathplace on genealogy records, but there is no WP article about a town or village of that name in Ontario, so this must be the place. Snocrates 08:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
It is the same place, Township of Charlotteville, Ontario. The government now calls it "geographic Township of Charlotteville". • Gene93k (talk) 11:30, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notable as a former town and notability does not expire. Gov't records confirm that it did exist. (Provincial archives [1] point here [2]). The township exists on an 1877 map [3]. More hits: [4] [5] (pdf) [6] • Gene93k (talk) 11:30, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Historical place names are notable per se. Image:Norfolk1880.PNG looks genuine, and seems to confirm the existence of the township in question. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:26, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep places are inherently notable and sources listed above establish existence. Whether it currently exists or not (and if not, the details of its dissolution) is an appropriate subject for inclusion in the article, not for its deletion. Alansohn (talk) 18:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per WP:SNOW? Bearian (talk) 00:52, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. The snowball has left the building. RFerreira 07:40, 2 December 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.