Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Qarn Jayroun

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 redirect to Qarsita to preserve the page history and the title. Consensus is that the current article is unsalvageable, but may in future be replaced by a well sourced and properly written encyclopedia article about the named geographic feature. - filelake shoe  09:16, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Qarn Jayroun[edit]

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Non-notable "farms area". Article is totally unsourced and written as an advertisement. Hahc21 ^{[TALK][CONTRIBS]} 21:27, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lebanon-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:55, 28 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The place the article is about is apparently at 34°26′31″N 36°07′08″E / 34.442°N 36.119°E / 34.442; 36.119 - Google identifies it as Qarn, with Jairoun perhaps a mile to the south-west. It uwually seems to be identified simply as "Qarn", which however seems to be a fairly common Arabic place name - so that might explain the article title. Also, the Google translation of the corresponding Arabic Wikipedia article is close enough to this article to confirm that this has largely been translated from there - which may explain the inadequate sourcing and the occasionally promotional wording by our standards. So far as notability goes, I would be going straight for a Keep vote if I could be certain the place is inhabited - while there are extremely clear signs of human activity there, I can't see anything I would definitely class as habitation. So I will leave it to others to judge whether it meets our usual standards for geographical notability. PWilkinson (talk) 13:00, 1 June 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) 00:57, 3 June 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) 00:04, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - does not pass any relevant notability standard. Impossible to reliably verify. --Salimfadhley (talk) 00:05, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Qarsita, the administrative entity. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 02:06, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:V and Salimfadhley. Bearian (talk) 22:57, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep per WP:Notability (geography) (as a "Named geographic feature"). GoogleEarth plainly shows "Jairoun" at the coordinates indicated. The Arabic term "Qarn" simply means "hill" or "mount" or "mountain", so "Qarn Jairoun" seems something like "Mount Jairoun". There are plenty of English place-names which are referred to both with and without the antecedent "Mount" (eg "Everest" and "Mount Everest"). Incidentally, satellite images of Jairoun seem to show at least a hundred house-size structures, but of course the village is probably nonnotable. No matter, its namesake mountain is inherently "notable" and the article should be retained and eventually improved on that basis. --→gab 24dot grab← 21:14, 19 June 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.