Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saleh Khana

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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn with no outstanding delete votes. (non-admin closure) • Gene93k (talk) 01:46, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Saleh Khana

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contested speedy. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Not only is this article's tone promotional, its content seems utterly unencyclopaedic. It's unsourced and the website of reference is the blog of the individual who created the article  Ohconfucius ^{ping / poke} 06:14, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

• Comment Salehkhana (which was created after the page for deletion) duplicates the article, but with slightly different text. Ravendrop 06:32, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Speedy Deleted. Ravendrop 02:33, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
• Conditional delete unless WP:V can be found to verify its existence as a village (and more importantly the name - i.e. one word or two?). I searched but could only find a Google Map reference, which isn't necessarily reliable. IF the page is verified then I suggest blowing it up to simply: "(Name) is a village in (District) Pakistan." as absolutely everything else fails WP:V and some of it potentially infringes on BLP violations. Ravendrop 06:32, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Keep per consensus that all verified populated places are inherently notable per the sources found by editors below. Ravendrop 02:33, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
• Keep but delete the crap in the article Well, Google maps and Google earth think it exists (approximately 33 degrees 50 minutes N by 71 degrees 52 minutes E) - but the US GeoNames server doesn't have anything. In any event, the content of the article cannot be verified by Google maps or Google earth. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 07:51, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Update: the US GeoNames server verifies the existence of this village under the name Silah Khana (a plausible alternate Romanization of Urdu script reading Saleh Khana) at 33° 50' 37" N 071° 52' 13" E, right where Google has it. So it's existence is verified by two sources; the naming is a matter of style but looking at the Urdu, I think the current name is closer to the book-correct version. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 07:58, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

• Keep, have cleaned it up, it seems to exist, have added refs. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:48, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
• Keep - I removed some further unsourced content and reduced it to a stub. Real population center and appears of significant size. --Oakshade (talk) 21:33, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:19, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

• Keep I'm formally withdrawing the Afd nomination. Move to speedy keep. -- Ohconfucius ^{ping / poke} 02:58, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

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