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The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge contains dozens of lakes. A few of them are notable, being large and accessible. These lakes are neither of those things, they are in a swampy
muskeg area off the road system dotted with numerous tiny lakes. There is little to say about them other than that they exist, which is all these articles do say.
Beeblebrox (
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22:21, 4 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Note that a total of three articles are nominated for deletion herein.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America100004:46, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just curious but what are the notability guidelines for lakes? As I know with human settlements we have thousands of unsourced articles about some Polish village with only 300 residents and it's considered "notable", so I had assumed that this is also the case for other geographic phenomena. --
Donald Trung (
Talk) (
Articles)
05:56, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep all.
Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Lakes are "notable, provided information beyond statistics and coordinates is known to exist. This includes mountains, lakes, streams, islands, etc." Plenty of sources exist for all three. One has a state recreation site. Another has a nearby airport named after it. These are not minor or disputed features but substantial geographic areas. Clearly notable.
FloridaArmy (
talk)
10:32, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Speedy keep? really? Could you produce some evidence to back up literally any of the claims you have just made? (even then
WP:SK wouldn’t apply, but it’d be something anyway) In particular, I’m unclear on how one of these remote lakes already inside a protected area has it’s own state rec site?
Beeblebrox (
talk)
22:47, 14 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Yeah, I looked myself, you need to refine your search parameters. Grebe Lake airstrip is a private runway that is a few hundred miles from KNWR, on the other side of Wasilla. And Moon Lake State Rec Area is even further away, near Tok, closer to Canada than to KNWR. There are tens of thousands of tiny lakes in Alaska, and names get repeated. This discussion is about the three lakes by these names inside KNWR, which is on the
Kenai Peninsula. None of them are on the road system at all, let alone have their own airport.
Beeblebrox (
talk)
22:55, 14 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Don’t think so. Again, there are dozens of tiny lakes in this area. There are over three million lakes in Alaska as a whole, listing them all would be madness. Even listing the named ones would be over three thousand entries. Have a look at
this map for an idea of what this area is like.
Beeblebrox (
talk)
19:28, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Given that map and the fact Alaska is a vast wilderness, it would be insanity to create a list of every lake in the state. According to
WP:GEOLAND, "Named natural features are often notable, provided information beyond statistics and coordinates is known to exist." If a lake is notable 9 times out of 10, this is one of those cases where it is not, there is no evidence that any other information other than the location of these lakes exists.--
Rusf10 (
talk)
01:12, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - these more or less all fail WP:V. Moon Lake, in particular, is odd as the most famous Moon Lake in Alaska has an epinomynous State recreation area near
Tok[1]. That one is listed at
List of Alaska state parks, and a redirect to that list is possible. But there is no reason not to delete the current page, as it refers to a different Moon Lake.
Smmurphy(
Talk)21:39, 21 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 Kenai National Wildlife Refuge contains dozens of lakes. A few of them are notable, being large and accessible. These lakes are neither of those things, they are in a swampy
muskeg area off the road system dotted with numerous tiny lakes. There is little to say about them other than that they exist, which is all these articles do say.
Beeblebrox (
talk)
22:21, 4 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Note that a total of three articles are nominated for deletion herein.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America100004:46, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just curious but what are the notability guidelines for lakes? As I know with human settlements we have thousands of unsourced articles about some Polish village with only 300 residents and it's considered "notable", so I had assumed that this is also the case for other geographic phenomena. --
Donald Trung (
Talk) (
Articles)
05:56, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep all.
Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Lakes are "notable, provided information beyond statistics and coordinates is known to exist. This includes mountains, lakes, streams, islands, etc." Plenty of sources exist for all three. One has a state recreation site. Another has a nearby airport named after it. These are not minor or disputed features but substantial geographic areas. Clearly notable.
FloridaArmy (
talk)
10:32, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Speedy keep? really? Could you produce some evidence to back up literally any of the claims you have just made? (even then
WP:SK wouldn’t apply, but it’d be something anyway) In particular, I’m unclear on how one of these remote lakes already inside a protected area has it’s own state rec site?
Beeblebrox (
talk)
22:47, 14 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Yeah, I looked myself, you need to refine your search parameters. Grebe Lake airstrip is a private runway that is a few hundred miles from KNWR, on the other side of Wasilla. And Moon Lake State Rec Area is even further away, near Tok, closer to Canada than to KNWR. There are tens of thousands of tiny lakes in Alaska, and names get repeated. This discussion is about the three lakes by these names inside KNWR, which is on the
Kenai Peninsula. None of them are on the road system at all, let alone have their own airport.
Beeblebrox (
talk)
22:55, 14 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Don’t think so. Again, there are dozens of tiny lakes in this area. There are over three million lakes in Alaska as a whole, listing them all would be madness. Even listing the named ones would be over three thousand entries. Have a look at
this map for an idea of what this area is like.
Beeblebrox (
talk)
19:28, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Given that map and the fact Alaska is a vast wilderness, it would be insanity to create a list of every lake in the state. According to
WP:GEOLAND, "Named natural features are often notable, provided information beyond statistics and coordinates is known to exist." If a lake is notable 9 times out of 10, this is one of those cases where it is not, there is no evidence that any other information other than the location of these lakes exists.--
Rusf10 (
talk)
01:12, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - these more or less all fail WP:V. Moon Lake, in particular, is odd as the most famous Moon Lake in Alaska has an epinomynous State recreation area near
Tok[1]. That one is listed at
List of Alaska state parks, and a redirect to that list is possible. But there is no reason not to delete the current page, as it refers to a different Moon Lake.
Smmurphy(
Talk)21:39, 21 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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deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.