The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 23:15, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
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A redirect to this article was nominated at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 8#Shafiullah Orakzai, leading to me investigating it, and I'm thinking this is a hoax.
First off, when google searching -wiki and -wikipedia, the only results for "Shafiullah Orakzai" are social media, and the only results for "Lalbazgaray" is one OpenStreetMaps edit by a user of that name. Furthermore, the original page creator is
Lalbazgaray (who was recently unblocked, and I'm not sure that was a good move, given
this edit after being unblocked). There is a Lalbazgaray at the coordinates given on both Google Maps and OpenStreetMaps, but given the
OpenStreetMap history is also suspicious, with Lalbazgaray being the most recent editor and the location being published by Shafiullah Orakzai, I'm not convinced the Google Maps town is trustworthy (you can submit things to be added to Google Maps). Google Maps is also the only citation in the article, and I'm not seeing any evidence this town actually exists per google search.
Admittedly, I'm not experienced in catching hoaxes, and I could have missed something here, but this is extremely suspicious to me. (There are reviews for the POIs on Google Maps in the town going back a year or so, which does make me hesitant.) I'm taking it to AFD as such. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 22:08, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
"Populated, legally recognized places are typically presumed to be notable, even if their population is very low.".
The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 23:15, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
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A redirect to this article was nominated at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 8#Shafiullah Orakzai, leading to me investigating it, and I'm thinking this is a hoax.
First off, when google searching -wiki and -wikipedia, the only results for "Shafiullah Orakzai" are social media, and the only results for "Lalbazgaray" is one OpenStreetMaps edit by a user of that name. Furthermore, the original page creator is
Lalbazgaray (who was recently unblocked, and I'm not sure that was a good move, given
this edit after being unblocked). There is a Lalbazgaray at the coordinates given on both Google Maps and OpenStreetMaps, but given the
OpenStreetMap history is also suspicious, with Lalbazgaray being the most recent editor and the location being published by Shafiullah Orakzai, I'm not convinced the Google Maps town is trustworthy (you can submit things to be added to Google Maps). Google Maps is also the only citation in the article, and I'm not seeing any evidence this town actually exists per google search.
Admittedly, I'm not experienced in catching hoaxes, and I could have missed something here, but this is extremely suspicious to me. (There are reviews for the POIs on Google Maps in the town going back a year or so, which does make me hesitant.) I'm taking it to AFD as such. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 22:08, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
"Populated, legally recognized places are typically presumed to be notable, even if their population is very low.".