Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hararit

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 no consensus. Sandstein 07:18, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hararit

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Delete There is only one source with no quote, and no URL. I searched Google, Google News and Google Books and found only a personal blog found only a listing and a passing mention. It appears not to pass WP:NOTABLE. — Keithbob • Talk • 18:23, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Based on Kbobb's research and Wiki policy on Notability, the article can be deleted. --BwB (talk) 19:04, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, this settlement exists, which is already enough to be notable, and it's especially notable for being a Transcendental Meditation settlement, of which there are very few in the world. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 06:45, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:06, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, Populated, legally-recognized places are, by a very large consensus, considered notable, even if the population is very low. See Wikipedia:Notability (geography). Marokwitz (talk) 13:23, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment- Thank you to all for your participation. I would just comment for consideration that a)WP:NOTABILITY is a guideline and takes precedence over the essay WP:Notability (geography). b) Even the essay WP:Notability (geography) states that "It is important though, when notability is challenged, to reliably document that a place is legally recognized in some way. Examples include government recognition of the place as a municipality or region, or recognition by a government agency" I don't see any indication that this place has any government sanction and it appears to just be a housing development with no significant notablility -- — Keithbob • Talk • 01:49, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:41, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note. Hararit is a legally recognized village in the Misgav Regional Council. The regional council comprises 35 small towns, all of which have their own Wikipedia article. Marokwitz (talk) 06:17, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The Misgav Regional Council (MRC) article has only 4 citations, mostly on the topic of controversy with the MRC. Large portions of the article are uncited, including its claimed list of townships/settlements within the MRC. So far, no reliable source has been presented by any editor here to verify that Hararit is recognized by any valid government agency or that it in any way meets the criteria of WP:Notability The Hararit article has one citation. If this town is notable, please provide further sources.-- — Keithbob • Talk • 15:50, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I added some sources to the article. Hararit also appears on the site of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, as all other settlements, but that website is in Hebrew and very hard to link to. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:49, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

keep It is established practice that we make an article for any village or other populated place that can be verified. There is no overall rule about which guideline applies when there are general and specific guidelines, but in thisparticular case we have uniformly applied them in this fashion. What we consistently do are the real guidelines. DGG ( talk ) 17:27, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.