Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winnesota

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 delete. No consensus on where, if anywhere, to create a redirect to. W.marsh 20:03, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Winnesota

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When the Minnesota Vikings are on a winning streak, some sports writers refer to the state Minnesota as Winnesota. This editorial mentions "Winnesota", but that does not make Winnesota an actual geographic region. The Winnesota article is nothing more than a hopeful attempt to use Wikipedia to get others to believe that this is a valid term. There is an insufficient amount of reliable source material to support an attributable article on Winnesota. The article should be deleted. -- Jreferee t/c 06:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I've never heard this term for the Wisconsin part of the MSP metro before; usually that area is either referred to as either "Western Wisconsin", "the eastern counties", or just the county names by the local media. A Google search pops up 166 unique hits, including a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel blog piece by a recently transplanted newbie to the state who refs this article. Others are plain lazy mispellings/OCR document reading errors of Minnesota, or fictional governments. Nate 09:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Kitty Rhoades, the originator (and nearly sole user) of the term. I've created an article and merged an appropriate mention. --Dhartung | Talk 11:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. The proper place to cover the two Wisconsin counties' proximity to and interrelationship with Minnesota would be in St. Croix County, Wisconsin and Pierce County, Wisconsin, or maybe in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. (And it's been a long time since the Vikings been on a winning streak. Have they even scored any offensive touchdowns this year yet? Never mind, I'm digressing.) --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 15:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - per above. Onnaghar talk.review 16:01, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to Minnesota as a plausible misinterpretation of the spelling of Minnesota by foreigners. 132.205.44.5 23:15, 11 October 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.