Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morristown, Ohio

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 of the debate was speedy keep per votes and precedent. FCYTravis 21:03, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Morristown, Ohio[edit]

I dont think a town with 300 people should be in a encyclopedia. --64.12.116.8 01:16, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per overwhelming precident (and probably an official policy somewhere). There is an article for every US town there's census data on, even towns with a population of 5. --W.marsh 01:20, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I learn something on Wikipedia every day. :) Oh, and keep. Jacqui ^★ 05:45, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It gets better - consider our article on Erving's Location! (Oh, that's a keep, BTW) Grutness...wha? 12:41, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, of course.--Sean|Bla ck 01:37, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, per W. marsh. CanadianCaesar 01:52, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep. --Daedalus-Prime 01:59, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Real place with real communities of interest. Capitalistroadster 02:35, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep there are towns with smaller populatiosn in wiki.--->Newyorktimescrossword 03:00, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, as real places are notable. Carioca 03:31, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all real towns. BD2412 T 03:32, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Every town deserves an article. Cnwb 03:57, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep all real towns (and even some fictional ones but that's another topic). 23skidoo 04:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You betcha keep.—Gaff ^ταλκ 05:11, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep, obviously. —Cleared as filed. 05:43, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep. Nominator is probably unaware of WP policies and consensus on this issue.--Nicodemus75 07:05, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, of course. -- Necrothesp 10:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- Martin Osterman 14:49, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per long-standing precedent, but I'd like to ask - is there actually an official policy on this anywhere, or records of where this consensus was reached? It just seems strange that there can be a unanimous consensus to keep articles on tiny villages, while things like schools are surrounded by such controversy. Where are all the deletionists? :/ — Haeleth Talk 16:21, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, here is the reason why towns and burgs are always kept. I think I have pretty good credentials as a "deletionist," but I'm in favor of keeping all the places (and few of the schools). There have been at least three occasions where the subject has come up, most spectacularly with Eequor's mass listing of 20 or so towns and a "delete 'em all under population 15,000." Essentially, a town occupies a specific nexus in a biographical, historical, military, or industrial article. Even if Possum Trot isn't big now, it might be the location where the Battle of the Big Hill took place in the past. Each city/town is unique as well, having a particular narrative built into it. On the other hand, public schools in the US, for example, are, by nature and law, designed to be as nearly identical as possible and to fulfill an entirely predictable and dependable function with each and every student, so there is less character to discuss with them. Particular schools that deviate from the uniformity achieve note and become "notable" and warrant inclusion, but a school that looks and acts like the others is, at least for me, no more worthy of writing about than a particular gas station or hot dog stand -- important to its customers but not having an unique or particular effect beyond the local. Geogre 18:45, 8 November 2005 (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.