Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shaba North

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The result of the debate was KEEP.

The votes were 6 keep, 3 delete. dbenbenn | talk 00:09, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shaba North

Non notable. ' "Shaba North" ' -> 15 hits, 'Shaba North OTRAG' -> 13 hits. Gtabary 20:12, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Not really notable. Can't see it expanding. Smoddy | ειπετε 22:37, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Shaba was a region of Africa's largest country during the regime of Mobuto Sese Seko. It is most certainly notable and encyclopedic. Keep, rewrite and expand accordingly.--Centauri 02:07, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Delete, Shaba is indeed notable but Shaba North is not borderline. Megan1967 02:48, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable as a geographic location. JuntungWu 05:09, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all real geographic locations. GRider\^talk 19:01, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Including the back garden of my house? Uncle G 19:28, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)
    • Certainly. As soon as it's officially gazetted as a political division or otherwise uniquely identified by the geographical names board in your country. :-) --Centauri 05:57, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
      • So not "all real geographic locations", then. I thought not. Uncle G 12:42, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)
• Keep and send to Cleanup. There have been a whole slew of rocket launch site and test range site articles added to Wikipedia within the past month, some of which I've run a first pass over. (I've found, incidentally, that if one sticks a {{geo-stub}} on them (or a more specific stub, if one knows it) they sometimes see improvement. I do wish, though, that the anonymous author would (a) create a user account so that we can find all of the articles in order to tag them, (b) not write in telegraphese, and (c) learn, and apply, wiki markup.) Whilst not mainstream, at least these articles are about real places and their reasonably notable uses and histories. (Perhaps I should recommend (d) to the author as well: Disguise your articles to make them appear as if they are about Digimon characters, and then no-one will dare VFD them.) Uncle G 19:28, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)
• weak keep and cleanup. There have been a plethora of geo-stubs about rocketry sites arriving in the last few days, probably all the work of one Wikipedian. They're all about this length, and weren't connected anywhere useful. Hopefully they're mainly now in their correct regional stub categories where people will spot them and work on them further. Grutness|^hello? 07:12, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. The article is _not_ about a geographic location but about the launch site of the first OTRAG rocket. This is what must be considered here. This is what is non notable. I indeed saw the geographic location could be notable, but it's not about that. Therefore vfd. Gtabary 10:37, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - perfectly valid topic on African launch site. --Rlandmann 13:29, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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