Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bhottopara

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The result was redirect‎ to Naldanga Upazila. as a sensible ATD. Owen× ☎ 23:11, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bhottopara

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Disputed draftification. WP:GNG failure. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:45, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:45, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:05, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment As I understand WP:NGEO as Legally recognized settlements are considered notable. This seems to be a recognized village.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 12:10, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
at this point, delete It may be a village, it may be a neighborhood; who knows? User is going through and using some hidden source to make a bunch of unverifiable stubs. It's bad enough when a known-to-be-unreliable source is used, but we have no idea here and the onus shouldn't be on us to figure out what source was used. Mangoe (talk) 10:32, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @Mangoe: "Who knows?" Well, the original cited source says Bhattapara (admittedly a different transliteration) is a village. So does the source Vinegarymass911 added. Moreover, the 2011 Bangladeshi census says Bhat Para (yes, a third transliteration - welcome to the inconvenient world of Bengali names) is a village in Madhnagar Union of what was then Natore Sadar Upazila (since 2013 in Naldanga Upazila) with a population of 595. The coordinates make sense, smack in the middle of a built-up blob in Google Maps, next to Bhattopara Primary School (transliteration #4) and down the street from Bhattapara Central Mosque. They're within 1 second in each direction of the coordinates for the Bhattapara in Rajshahi Division in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Geographic Names Server. So there's little question that it's a village, a legally recognized populated place. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:47, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
comment I don't believe these trivial "xxx is a village" articles are a net benefit to the encyclopedia. People often say we should keep them because Wikipedia is, among other things, a gazetteer. Gazetteers, however, are mostly a list of one-sentence descriptions, they don't have a separate page or article about every entry. There are about 1,500 villages in Natore District. Fortunately there are not (yet) articles for many of them in Wikipedia. Is there any appetite for merging/redirecting this and other Category:Villages in Natore District into a new "List of villages in Natore District" article that would serve the purpose of a gazetteer without creating thousands of stubs? --Worldbruce (talk) 17:38, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 22:38, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Naldanga Upazila where I've added it to an incomplete list of villages. It's not really clear what locale is being referenced in the second source, since Basudebpur Union (which is still in Rajshahi District) doesn't mention it in their list of villages. Madhnagar union does include it so if/when a Madhnagar union page is created it can be listed and redirected there. JoelleJay (talk) 16:45, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect as suggested by JoelleJay as AtD. Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:50, 2 October 2024 (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.