Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winterport (CDP), Maine

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The result was Redirect to Winterport (town), Maine, which is further renamed to Winterport, Maine, and Winterport redirected as well. —Quarl (talk) 2007-04-19 06:50Z

[edit] Winterport (CDP), Maine

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This is a good page, and noteable, but it's about the exact same place as :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterport_%28town%29%2C_Maine I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterport should probably just stop being a disambiguation and should just absorb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterport_%28town%29%2C_Maine

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterport_%28CDP%29%2C_Maine

I suspect a bot made this and just had a bit of a quirk when this town was listed twice. I think the CDP is just the 'village' area of the town, which is simply a very small downtown part of an already small town, and really shouldn't be it's own article. Owlofcreamcheese 18:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

  • This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 10:07, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
  • The three pages mentioned here are more usually pointed to as Winterport, Winterport (CDP), Maine, Winterport (town), Maine. Anthony Appleyard 10:18, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Winterport (CDP), Maine and Winterport (town), Maine have different official US Census population figures, 1,307 and 3,602 respectively, indicating reliable evidence that they're two separate places, kind of like St. Albans (town), Vermont and St. Albans (city), Vermont. --Oakshade 04:29, 16 April 2007 (UTC) Now Delete per Owlofcreamcheese's comments. --Oakshade 18:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I live in the town, it's not two different places. It's just a quirk of the census taking that they list the entire town then list the separate "village" downtown area. The page was clearly autogenerated, and it took the two different designations to mean two different places. Both refer to the same place and should at least be merged into just "Winterport". read the page on CDPs:

The boundaries of such places may be defined in cooperation with local or tribal officials, but are not fixed, and do not affect the status of local government or incorporation; the territories thus defined are strictly statistical entities. CDP boundaries may change from one census to the next to reflect changes in settlement patterns. Further, as statistical entities, the boundaries of the CDP may not correspond with local understanding of the area with the same name

It is not a thing that is notable on it's own. It probably isn't really notable at all compared to the town, but if it is notable, it should be part of the article on the town, since it is a part of the town and not something separate. They both refer to the same locations. One is just the whole town and one is a statistical creation for the census that includes part of the town. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Owlofcreamcheese (talk • contribs) 18:12, 16 April 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.