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List of places in other countries which happen to have a namesake in Canada, without regard to whether either place was named for the other or not.
Richmond, British Columbia was not, for instance, named after
Richmond, New South Wales or vice versa -- they merely happen, through different processes of relevance to Canada and Australia, to both be named for the same historical person. And neither are Kinmundy, Alberta and
Kinmundy, Illinois relevant to each other just because they were both named after the same third place in Scotland, nor do
Warsaw, Ontario and
Warsaw, New York have a defining connection to each other just because they were both named after the one in Poland. Certainly some places in this list had the Canadian settlement directly named after them, which might be legitimate to note in a very different list than this one, but we don't need a list of every single place name in any world country that merely happens to also exist in Canada for completely independent reasons.
Bearcat (
talk)
19:44, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete - Some entries on the list are indeed correct, such as
Bruxelles, Manitoba being the namesake of
Brussels. But many other entries--probably most--are inaccurate or not supported by the sources cited.
Hull, Quebec may or may not be the namesake of
Kingston upon Hull; the source cited to support this does not even mention Kingston upon Hull. As well, many entries are sourced by the Geographical Names Data Base (GNIS), which contains no information about the history of the places it lists (so how can GNIS support that this place is named after that place)? The article also lists a number of Canadian cities which are the namesake of some non-Canadian "place" that is not even a city, such as
Waterloo, Ontario being the namesake of the
Battle of Waterloo, and
Grimsthorpe, Ontario (an redirect with no article) being the namesake of
Grimsthorpe Castle. This article as it is, is misleading and of little use to Wikipedia readers. Delete (and save to a draft if requested). — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Magnolia677 (
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Keep The objections to the entries on the list are all mistaken. Most of the entries on the list are supported by the reference cited in the "notes" column. There are some do not have a citation; those are supported by the Wiki page for the Canadian city. Now many of the citations just take you to the Googlebooks page for the book and it's up to the user to type the name of the city in the search field to find the actual cite. This was done in an effort to keep the total number of citations for this page to a resonable number. If every cite took you to the exact page, there would be several hundred citations for this list. If someone thinks that's desirable, I can do that. But it's not a reason to delete the page. OK, let's take the specific objections in order:
Richmond, BC -- cite is British Columbia Place Names. Direct link:
Richmond Googlebooks won't let me copy the page, but it says that someone's daughter named it after her favorite place in Australia and this pre-dates someone else's claim that it's named after a place in England.
Kinmundy, Alberta -- cite is Community Place Names of Alberta. Direct link:
Kinmundy Again it won't let me copy and paste, but it does in fact say it was named for Kinmundy, Illinois, the hometown of the first postmaster. Kinmundy, IL was named for the Scottish place, but that's irrelevant to this list.
Warsaw, Ontario -- cite is Place names of Ontario. While Googlebooks has this book, all it has is snippetview. Unfortunately doing a search does not turn up the entry for Warsaw (the search function on Googlebooks is flakey at times and this is one of them.) I did not use Googlebooks, but rather checked the book out from the library. If I put it in the list, then the book actually says it was named for the place in New York and not the city in Poland. You'll have to take my word for it or check the book out of the library yourself.
Hull, Quebec -- The
cite given says "Hull Township got its name from the city of Hull in Yorkshire, Eng. ". Ok. so where is Hull, Yorkshire? Go to the page for
Hull, Yorkshire and you'll find it redirects to
Kingston upon Hull and the first thing it says after the pronunciation is "usually abbreviated to Hull".
Cites to GNIS -- GNIS is a resource for USA places; this page uses the Canadian equivalent. However, it only uses them to establish that the place in Canada actually exists, not that it's named for another city. That's because not all places in Canada have their own Wikipage. All those with cites to this database also have an additional cite in the "notes" column that establishes that it was named for the non-Canadian city.
Places named after non-cities, i.e. castles. If you read the lede, it says that " the namesakes are places (cities, towns, villages) in Canada that are named for a city, town, village, or institution such as a castle or country house in some other country." (emphasis added) OK, that part is not in the page's title, but there's only so much you can put in a title before it gets too unwieldy. Perhaps the title needs to be modified. If you think so, please make a suggestion as to what it should be. But it's not a reason to throw out the whole page.
Places named for battles such as Waterloo: These are indirect namings. The city in Ontario was named for the battle but the battle was named for the town it was fought at. I see no reason to object to these. (And if we do remove them, at some future time someone else will come along and add them. You can pretty much bet on that.)
I felt this was a useful addition to Wikipedia. If I didn't, I wouldn't have expended all the time and effort to compile it.
Waterloo, Belgium is of course a city, and the Battle of Waterloo is named after the city.
Grimsthorpe is a village in England after which Grimsthorpe Castle is named.
I think the page is useful. Even if a few of entries need to be amended or deleted later, or need better citations, the great majority of them seem to be valid, so there seems to be no reason to delete the whole page.
Green Wyvern (
talk)
10:06, 6 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep This list is actually interesting; and there is no point in deleting articles which may need to be recreated some time in the future. Impressively intensive. And very well-sourced.
Claverhouse (
talk)
11:06, 6 November 2017 (UTC)reply
We keep or delete stuff based on whether or not the content is encyclopedic, not whether or not the content is interesting to somebody.
Bearcat (
talk)
19:50, 7 November 2017 (UTC)reply
We keep or delete stuff based on whether or not the content is encyclopedic, not whether or not the content is interesting to somebody.
Bearcat (
talk)
19:50, 7 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Would that be the Royal We ? encyclopedic is a very subjective term, however there is nothing in this article that could not have been included in print encyclopedias of the distant past.
Claverhouse (
talk)
02:30, 8 November 2017 (UTC)reply
It's been suggested to me elsewhere that I change it to something very much like that, where the emphasis is on Canadian cities rather than cities in other countries. That would reduce some confusion about the list. It would require some work, since the tables would have to be reordered to put the Canadian cities first. It would also open the list up to more than one Canadian town per foreign city, but this would not result it a great expansion of the list. Unlike, for example the US, where there are a dozen or more places named after many large European cities and even several each named for certain more obscure places. I'm amenable to doing this, but I'm not going to make any changes to the list until this deletion issue is resolved.
Dtilque (
talk)
08:16, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Speedy KeepWP:SK#3, "The nomination is so erroneous that it indicates the nominator has not even read the article in question", or in this case the talk page of the article. WP:BEFORE C3 states, "If an article has issues try first raising your concerns on the article's talk page". This AfD has quickly turned into the author providing explanations to the nominator, that are proof that no attempt was made to discuss this BEFORE nomination. Nor is there an argument for deletion, since "we don't need <this> list" is not to be found on policy-based
WP:DEL-REASONs, so
WP:SK#1 also applies.
Unscintillating (
talk)
14:22, 12 November 2017 (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.
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.
List of places in other countries which happen to have a namesake in Canada, without regard to whether either place was named for the other or not.
Richmond, British Columbia was not, for instance, named after
Richmond, New South Wales or vice versa -- they merely happen, through different processes of relevance to Canada and Australia, to both be named for the same historical person. And neither are Kinmundy, Alberta and
Kinmundy, Illinois relevant to each other just because they were both named after the same third place in Scotland, nor do
Warsaw, Ontario and
Warsaw, New York have a defining connection to each other just because they were both named after the one in Poland. Certainly some places in this list had the Canadian settlement directly named after them, which might be legitimate to note in a very different list than this one, but we don't need a list of every single place name in any world country that merely happens to also exist in Canada for completely independent reasons.
Bearcat (
talk)
19:44, 5 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Delete - Some entries on the list are indeed correct, such as
Bruxelles, Manitoba being the namesake of
Brussels. But many other entries--probably most--are inaccurate or not supported by the sources cited.
Hull, Quebec may or may not be the namesake of
Kingston upon Hull; the source cited to support this does not even mention Kingston upon Hull. As well, many entries are sourced by the Geographical Names Data Base (GNIS), which contains no information about the history of the places it lists (so how can GNIS support that this place is named after that place)? The article also lists a number of Canadian cities which are the namesake of some non-Canadian "place" that is not even a city, such as
Waterloo, Ontario being the namesake of the
Battle of Waterloo, and
Grimsthorpe, Ontario (an redirect with no article) being the namesake of
Grimsthorpe Castle. This article as it is, is misleading and of little use to Wikipedia readers. Delete (and save to a draft if requested). — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Magnolia677 (
talk •
contribs)
Keep The objections to the entries on the list are all mistaken. Most of the entries on the list are supported by the reference cited in the "notes" column. There are some do not have a citation; those are supported by the Wiki page for the Canadian city. Now many of the citations just take you to the Googlebooks page for the book and it's up to the user to type the name of the city in the search field to find the actual cite. This was done in an effort to keep the total number of citations for this page to a resonable number. If every cite took you to the exact page, there would be several hundred citations for this list. If someone thinks that's desirable, I can do that. But it's not a reason to delete the page. OK, let's take the specific objections in order:
Richmond, BC -- cite is British Columbia Place Names. Direct link:
Richmond Googlebooks won't let me copy the page, but it says that someone's daughter named it after her favorite place in Australia and this pre-dates someone else's claim that it's named after a place in England.
Kinmundy, Alberta -- cite is Community Place Names of Alberta. Direct link:
Kinmundy Again it won't let me copy and paste, but it does in fact say it was named for Kinmundy, Illinois, the hometown of the first postmaster. Kinmundy, IL was named for the Scottish place, but that's irrelevant to this list.
Warsaw, Ontario -- cite is Place names of Ontario. While Googlebooks has this book, all it has is snippetview. Unfortunately doing a search does not turn up the entry for Warsaw (the search function on Googlebooks is flakey at times and this is one of them.) I did not use Googlebooks, but rather checked the book out from the library. If I put it in the list, then the book actually says it was named for the place in New York and not the city in Poland. You'll have to take my word for it or check the book out of the library yourself.
Hull, Quebec -- The
cite given says "Hull Township got its name from the city of Hull in Yorkshire, Eng. ". Ok. so where is Hull, Yorkshire? Go to the page for
Hull, Yorkshire and you'll find it redirects to
Kingston upon Hull and the first thing it says after the pronunciation is "usually abbreviated to Hull".
Cites to GNIS -- GNIS is a resource for USA places; this page uses the Canadian equivalent. However, it only uses them to establish that the place in Canada actually exists, not that it's named for another city. That's because not all places in Canada have their own Wikipage. All those with cites to this database also have an additional cite in the "notes" column that establishes that it was named for the non-Canadian city.
Places named after non-cities, i.e. castles. If you read the lede, it says that " the namesakes are places (cities, towns, villages) in Canada that are named for a city, town, village, or institution such as a castle or country house in some other country." (emphasis added) OK, that part is not in the page's title, but there's only so much you can put in a title before it gets too unwieldy. Perhaps the title needs to be modified. If you think so, please make a suggestion as to what it should be. But it's not a reason to throw out the whole page.
Places named for battles such as Waterloo: These are indirect namings. The city in Ontario was named for the battle but the battle was named for the town it was fought at. I see no reason to object to these. (And if we do remove them, at some future time someone else will come along and add them. You can pretty much bet on that.)
I felt this was a useful addition to Wikipedia. If I didn't, I wouldn't have expended all the time and effort to compile it.
Waterloo, Belgium is of course a city, and the Battle of Waterloo is named after the city.
Grimsthorpe is a village in England after which Grimsthorpe Castle is named.
I think the page is useful. Even if a few of entries need to be amended or deleted later, or need better citations, the great majority of them seem to be valid, so there seems to be no reason to delete the whole page.
Green Wyvern (
talk)
10:06, 6 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep This list is actually interesting; and there is no point in deleting articles which may need to be recreated some time in the future. Impressively intensive. And very well-sourced.
Claverhouse (
talk)
11:06, 6 November 2017 (UTC)reply
We keep or delete stuff based on whether or not the content is encyclopedic, not whether or not the content is interesting to somebody.
Bearcat (
talk)
19:50, 7 November 2017 (UTC)reply
We keep or delete stuff based on whether or not the content is encyclopedic, not whether or not the content is interesting to somebody.
Bearcat (
talk)
19:50, 7 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Would that be the Royal We ? encyclopedic is a very subjective term, however there is nothing in this article that could not have been included in print encyclopedias of the distant past.
Claverhouse (
talk)
02:30, 8 November 2017 (UTC)reply
It's been suggested to me elsewhere that I change it to something very much like that, where the emphasis is on Canadian cities rather than cities in other countries. That would reduce some confusion about the list. It would require some work, since the tables would have to be reordered to put the Canadian cities first. It would also open the list up to more than one Canadian town per foreign city, but this would not result it a great expansion of the list. Unlike, for example the US, where there are a dozen or more places named after many large European cities and even several each named for certain more obscure places. I'm amenable to doing this, but I'm not going to make any changes to the list until this deletion issue is resolved.
Dtilque (
talk)
08:16, 10 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Speedy KeepWP:SK#3, "The nomination is so erroneous that it indicates the nominator has not even read the article in question", or in this case the talk page of the article. WP:BEFORE C3 states, "If an article has issues try first raising your concerns on the article's talk page". This AfD has quickly turned into the author providing explanations to the nominator, that are proof that no attempt was made to discuss this BEFORE nomination. Nor is there an argument for deletion, since "we don't need <this> list" is not to be found on policy-based
WP:DEL-REASONs, so
WP:SK#1 also applies.
Unscintillating (
talk)
14:22, 12 November 2017 (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.