Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Peculiarities of Ohio place names

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The result of the debate was Delete.

Comment: I do not know who actually made the decision to delete the page. The discussion thread was not formally closed until just now. Rossami (talk) 03:17, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Peculiarities of Ohio place names

Delete. It's really too bad that so much time has been spent on this, but it seems far too idiosyncratic and useless. It's nothing more than a list of place names that defy supposed assumptions you'd make based on the name. Some example listings: "Brownsville is in Ross County, not in Brown County." "Adams Mills is in Muskingum County, not in Adams County." Why would someone think a town called "Adams Mills" has to be in Adams County? Is this supposed to be contrary to other states? Can anyone else tell me why any of the entries in this list article are "peculiar"? Postdlf 04:19, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Notwithstanding the amount of work apparently put into this, delete. I don't see why this is encyclopedic. Also, parts don't make any sense. For instance, it says that "Monroe is in Butler County, not in Monroe County"--but also "Monroe is in Greene County, not in Monroe County"--and again "Monroe is in Jackson County, not in Monroe County". There are other similar examples. What, does Ohio allow cities to be in multiple counties. User:Jacob1207
  • Yes. And that, too, is not uncommon among other states. Postdlf 06:12, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Unencyclopedic and pointless. None of these facts are particularly notable. [[User:Livajo|Ливай | ☺]] 06:31, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete this seems like the sort of thing you see in the paper on a slow news day. [[User:Rhymeless|Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 08:33, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. The author's time could be much better spent. [[User:GeorgeStepanek|GeorgeStepanek\^talk ]] 21:23, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. —tregoweth 21:29, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
• Abstain for now. We don't need an article like this but before deleting this, take a look through to see if there can be any tidbits worth incorporating with other articles. 129.177.61.120 09:15, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC) Switching my vote now to Keep, I think there are many articles far worse than this one. 129.177.61.123 13:28, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Signature missing, cookie expired or anon? - Skysmith 09:34, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Merge any appropriate snippets elsewhere where they belong and delete. Besides, Ohio is hardly the only place in the world with "peculiar" place names - Skysmith 09:34, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• I'd argue "delete as a useless list" except that we keep lots of useless lists. It's no more "unencyclopedic" than any of them. I'd argue "delete because it's not unique to Ohio" but that would but usually be an argument for trimming/merging/consolidating into a more general article. I don't understand the author's choice to create this particular article but it's no worse than many others that we keep. I vote to give this author the benefit of the doubt for now. Keep. Rossami (talk) 01:26, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete because, 1, "peculiar" is partially POV, and PTMPA. 2, the assertion isn't even valid. Tons of cities/towns in most states that share a name with that of a county in the same state are not in counties named after them. For example, Garfield, Washington is in Whitman County, Washington, not Garfield County, Washington. Likewise Clarkston, Washington is not in Clark County, Washington, or is Centralia, Washington in Central Washington. Etc. This "peculiarity" is not all abnormal (admittedly, Asotin, Washington is in Asotin County, Washington), it's at best half-and-half.
  Some kiddie thinks Ohio is special. In the end, it is only that kiddie who is "special". - [[User:KeithTyler|Keith D. Tyler [flame]]] 19:23, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete and maybe move pronunciation elsewhere. --SPUI 23:09, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. It is useful information and people are confused. I live in Warren County, Ohio and a year or two there was a legal ad in The Western Star from a lawyer in Florida about something that happened in Warren, Ohio. He had published the ad on the wrong side of the state, mistakenly assuming that the city was in the county of the same name. (The city is in Trumbull County, Ohio. And so what if this isn't confined to Ohio? Let's create pages for other states. Certainly this information is worth keeping--if nothing else, let's have it as a section on the Ohio page. PedanticallySpeaking 15:22, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)

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