Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mbalano

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The result was delete‎. Meeting GEOLAND does require evidence that a populated place exists and is legally recognized. Vanamonde (Talk) 03:51, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mbalano[edit]

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WP:BEFORE shows no evidence of significant coverage in reliable sources. It is not a "town"; at most it is a few houses. The author's obsession with climate does not help. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 08:36, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Africa and Nigeria. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 08:36, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep a WP:POPULATED town that seems to have a postal code [1][2] —siro χ o 10:27, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Siroxo are those links reliable sources, and do they constitute legal recognition? The second one seems to be a list of unofficial neighbourhoods that fall into a certain postal code. Per WP:POPULATED, "populated places without legal recognition" should have "non-trivial coverage by their name in multiple, independent reliable sources". ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 10:32, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 07:37, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - listed at List of villages in Abia State in the Imenyi district within the Isuikwuato local government area.

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 14:59, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

at this point, delete without prejudice to recreation if actual reliable sources are provided. Frankly, a quick sampling of other Nigerian towns/villages doesn't show any that don't have sourcing problems, but this is assembled entirely out of clickbait. Looking at GMaps is not encouraging: there is a group of buildings here, but it is not isolated enough from its surroundings to convince me that it is a distinct settlement. Mangoe (talk) 16:23, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:12, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The thresholds for populated places are low, but it needs to be verifiably shown that this place 1. exists and 2. has some legal recognition, and neither of those has been done here; accordingly, this fails WP:GEOLAND. Actualcpscm^{scrutinize, talk} 20:31, 17 August 2023 (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.