Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waltham, New Zealand

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The result of the debate was KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 22:51, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Waltham, New Zealand

Delete This page is not neccesary

• Delete Not listed in Christchurch,_New_Zealand#List_of_Christchurch_suburbs -- RHaworth 19:11, 2005 Jan 26 (UTC)
• Keep. Definitely exists, there are other articles about suburbs of significant world cities although Christchurch may be on the small side. Google searches show many refs to Waltham. Wants expansion and might want renaming, though. Dbiv 19:18, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Suburbs of major cities are notable and encyclopedic.--Centauri 21:50, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Heavy sigh. If only this was categorised properly, someone would have made it into a proper article before now. It should have been in the category with Christchurch's other suburbs (Category: Christchurch urban districts). I've improved it a little. (As for the naming, there is a generally held convention in New Zealand that all town names and most (but not all) suburb names are unique within the country - thus all other suburbs are currently simply listed as "X" or "X, New Zealand" unless there are clashes). Grutness|^hello? 22:33, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Oh, and please sign your nominations, User:Zxcvbnm, it's a normal courtesy here. Andrewa 23:29, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Real place. Keep and Expand. RickK 23:37, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Duh, keep. —RaD Man (talk) 01:56, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep all real places -RickK^H^H^H^H^H errr...  ALKIVAR™ 04:27, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. 23skidoo 04:53, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. I've just added some details. dramatic 09:50, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. It was a bit of an orphan but it has now been updated. Alan Liefting 11:54, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Suburb hosting major international sports venues. Average Earthman 13:39, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and allow for organic growth and expansion. GRider\^talk 00:11, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Who put this up anyway?

--JuntungWu 09:22, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)--JuntungWu 09:22, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Delete nominator - David Gerard 22:35, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • That's being a bit harsh, isn't it? The complete text of the original stated 'Waltham is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.', and it wasn't mentioned on the Christchurch article at the time. The VfD process has actually turned this article into a good one. The original nominator should have done a quick google as well, but I can see why they originally thought this wasn't worth having from the one line article. Average Earthman 08:39, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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