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Comment: I de-prodded this because I thought it had potential as an addition to
Category:Lists of place names, several of which likewise have a common naming characteristic but are otherwise unrelated; therefore the page was at least worth a full discussion. Also,
WP:ISNOT was a rather vague accusation
[1] to use in
WP:PROD; it contains a bunch of guidance, so please specify which parts you think fit this page. –
FayenaticLondon18:37, 19 June 2015 (UTC)reply
I have some qualms about changing the scope of this list to places named after other places. Checking some of Wikipedia's disambiguation pages, we have 36 distinct articles on places named after
Paris (then add the additional difficulty of figuring out whether the namesake is Paris the city or Paris the Trojan), 39 on
Manchester, 22 on
Birmingham, 20 on
Cairo, and many more if you check
Salem and
Jerusalem,
Bristol or
Arcadia. Is this list going to be manageable?
Altamel (
talk)
02:57, 5 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep it's weak by content, but toponymy often finds naming places after places with which the namer is familiar - in that sense they're not "unrelated". Moreover, one tends to find various "New" English places where the English named them rather than, say, where the Russians did. The article can be beefed up, surely, and sourced, but the topic is notable.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk)
21:10, 7 July 2015 (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.
Comment: I de-prodded this because I thought it had potential as an addition to
Category:Lists of place names, several of which likewise have a common naming characteristic but are otherwise unrelated; therefore the page was at least worth a full discussion. Also,
WP:ISNOT was a rather vague accusation
[1] to use in
WP:PROD; it contains a bunch of guidance, so please specify which parts you think fit this page. –
FayenaticLondon18:37, 19 June 2015 (UTC)reply
I have some qualms about changing the scope of this list to places named after other places. Checking some of Wikipedia's disambiguation pages, we have 36 distinct articles on places named after
Paris (then add the additional difficulty of figuring out whether the namesake is Paris the city or Paris the Trojan), 39 on
Manchester, 22 on
Birmingham, 20 on
Cairo, and many more if you check
Salem and
Jerusalem,
Bristol or
Arcadia. Is this list going to be manageable?
Altamel (
talk)
02:57, 5 July 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep it's weak by content, but toponymy often finds naming places after places with which the namer is familiar - in that sense they're not "unrelated". Moreover, one tends to find various "New" English places where the English named them rather than, say, where the Russians did. The article can be beefed up, surely, and sourced, but the topic is notable.
Carlossuarez46 (
talk)
21:10, 7 July 2015 (UTC)reply
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