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The result was Delete. Regardless of what the name means, we can't have an article about it if it has no coverage in reliable sources. Hut 8.522:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
"Afweyn" appears to be Somali for "
water well", because there are dozens of hits for this in Geonames, and most of them are tagged as wells, including two in this region alone. The one with the coords in this article is another spot in the middle of nowhere near the coast. Searching is impossible due to the common name, but I have to doubt the notability of wells, as I would the notability of towns with gas stations.
Mangoe (
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16:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. As a fluent Somali speaker I am nominating keep because I find it quite perplexing how someone who speaks not a single word of Somali is trying to translate Somali words. Amazing. Afweyn means "big mouth". Af = mouth; weyn = big. *shakes head*. Also, since water wells are a political tool as well as important subsistence tool in such a barren region, this article is notable.
92.19.179.136 (
talk)
07:28, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Google Translate does Somali now, send them feedback if they got it wrong. As far as the article is concerned, it clearly states it is a populated place, which is untrue, it is at best a well, assuming it exists at all, which is currently dubious. I see no specific guideline on whether desert wells are notable, it seems to me that they are relevant as you say, but somewhat lacking in sources or anything that could be written about them.
Prince of Thieves (
talk)
22:43, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete OpenStreetMap calls it a well, and if it's a well, it doesn't pass
WP:GEOLAND as there are no reliable sources. Would also like to note I would like to keep all of these if possible.
SportingFlyer (
talk)
07:12, 27 February 2018 (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
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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 Delete. Regardless of what the name means, we can't have an article about it if it has no coverage in reliable sources. Hut 8.522:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
"Afweyn" appears to be Somali for "
water well", because there are dozens of hits for this in Geonames, and most of them are tagged as wells, including two in this region alone. The one with the coords in this article is another spot in the middle of nowhere near the coast. Searching is impossible due to the common name, but I have to doubt the notability of wells, as I would the notability of towns with gas stations.
Mangoe (
talk)
16:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. As a fluent Somali speaker I am nominating keep because I find it quite perplexing how someone who speaks not a single word of Somali is trying to translate Somali words. Amazing. Afweyn means "big mouth". Af = mouth; weyn = big. *shakes head*. Also, since water wells are a political tool as well as important subsistence tool in such a barren region, this article is notable.
92.19.179.136 (
talk)
07:28, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Google Translate does Somali now, send them feedback if they got it wrong. As far as the article is concerned, it clearly states it is a populated place, which is untrue, it is at best a well, assuming it exists at all, which is currently dubious. I see no specific guideline on whether desert wells are notable, it seems to me that they are relevant as you say, but somewhat lacking in sources or anything that could be written about them.
Prince of Thieves (
talk)
22:43, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete OpenStreetMap calls it a well, and if it's a well, it doesn't pass
WP:GEOLAND as there are no reliable sources. Would also like to note I would like to keep all of these if possible.
SportingFlyer (
talk)
07:12, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
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