The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 19:51, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
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Created by indefinitely-blocked user Teckgeek who was a sockpuppet of Strider11, as part of a campaign of mass-creation.
This is a town of more than 100,000 people according to the article. The problem is that there is no evidence provided in the article, and none that I could find in my WP:BEFORE, that this place actually exists. The co-ordinates point to a random field in Rawalpindi, not Islamabad, or alternatively to a random compound that is also in Rawalpindi and whose address is not given as Nagail Sohal. A search of the Pakistani newspaper The Nation returns zero hits for "Nagail Sohal". Similarly there were no hits at all from GNews and GScholar searches. A search of Google returns only mirrors. There is a corresponding Urdu Wiki page but this is cited only to the English Wikipedia page, which shows just how harmful these low-quality Geostubs are.
The source on the page (
Fallingrain.com) is simply a source for rainfall at a place called Nagail Sohal which states "Approximate population for 7 km radius from this point: 93871"
- this is not the population of Nagail Sohal but simply an estimated number of people living near it, and is obviously a different number to that provided in the article. This source includes yet another set of co-ordinates that
point to the village of Gujar Khan, also in Rawalpindi, not Islamabad. The content on this website is based on
a grab-bag of unreliable sources and as such it too is unreliable.
The TL;DR version of this is that - unless I am very much mistaken (wrong Romanisation maybe?) - Wikipedia appears to have been hosting a hoax article created by a sock-puppet about an imaginary city of more than 100k people in Pakistan for the last 13 years. At the very least I'm not seeing either a WP:GEOLAND#1 pass (which would require legal recognition) nor a WP:GNG pass.
BTW - this is literally just the first Pakistan Geostub I checked at random. I haven't even looked for anything specific. FOARP ( talk) 16:24, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 19:51, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
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Created by indefinitely-blocked user Teckgeek who was a sockpuppet of Strider11, as part of a campaign of mass-creation.
This is a town of more than 100,000 people according to the article. The problem is that there is no evidence provided in the article, and none that I could find in my WP:BEFORE, that this place actually exists. The co-ordinates point to a random field in Rawalpindi, not Islamabad, or alternatively to a random compound that is also in Rawalpindi and whose address is not given as Nagail Sohal. A search of the Pakistani newspaper The Nation returns zero hits for "Nagail Sohal". Similarly there were no hits at all from GNews and GScholar searches. A search of Google returns only mirrors. There is a corresponding Urdu Wiki page but this is cited only to the English Wikipedia page, which shows just how harmful these low-quality Geostubs are.
The source on the page (
Fallingrain.com) is simply a source for rainfall at a place called Nagail Sohal which states "Approximate population for 7 km radius from this point: 93871"
- this is not the population of Nagail Sohal but simply an estimated number of people living near it, and is obviously a different number to that provided in the article. This source includes yet another set of co-ordinates that
point to the village of Gujar Khan, also in Rawalpindi, not Islamabad. The content on this website is based on
a grab-bag of unreliable sources and as such it too is unreliable.
The TL;DR version of this is that - unless I am very much mistaken (wrong Romanisation maybe?) - Wikipedia appears to have been hosting a hoax article created by a sock-puppet about an imaginary city of more than 100k people in Pakistan for the last 13 years. At the very least I'm not seeing either a WP:GEOLAND#1 pass (which would require legal recognition) nor a WP:GNG pass.
BTW - this is literally just the first Pakistan Geostub I checked at random. I haven't even looked for anything specific. FOARP ( talk) 16:24, 27 July 2022 (UTC)