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The result was keep. Nomination concern appears to be addressed (non-admin closure) Monty ₈₄₅ 19:48, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hongxing, Tibet[edit]

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no indication, either by sourcing, coordinates, or giving names in Chinese and/or Tibetan, that this village even exists. My searches of 西藏红星村 (the likely name), including variations, on both Baidu and Google Earth have produced no results. Sorry, Dr. Blofeld. HXL's Roundtable and Record 23:35, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Absolutely devoid of content and context; a non-article with no pointers for further research. Quigley (talk) 23:41, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Xinhua, the Chinese news service, seems to think that it exists in Konggar County: [1]. A large number of travel companies seem to think that it's on one of the main hiking trails in Tibet: [2], [3], etc. It exists and is a populated place, so it is not a hoax. Generally consensus is that all populated places are notable. This isn't a part of the world that has a lot of stuff written about it online or in English-language books: I'd suggest that instead of nominating this for AFD, the nominator might want to ask for assistance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tibet to find off-line published resources. --NellieBly (talk) 00:52, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since this site lists Hongxing as a village in Gonggar County, I change my vote to Expand. However, NellieBly, I would rather you not simply refer to me as "the nominator", and I would not have brought this AFD up had I found a single source like Xinhua or XZQH. Lastly, the Hongxing in 2nd and 3rd links is in Yunnan and belongs to ethnic Tibet, whereas this one is of the Tibet Autonomous Region. --HXL's Roundtable and Record 01:53, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:07, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nono HXL, sorry quite unnecesary, I certainly trust your judgement. In fact I had proposed to Xeno to actually delete most of the Tibetan village sub stubs aside from the townships as a lot of them are not verifiable on google maps. I am on on the fence about this particular village; we'd be better off starting the articles which do have google book hits. But if you could find some info on it then its worth a keep.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:37, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yuck the problem is Hongxing, Tibet is a place in central Tibet yet that sources says Gonggar County which is in Shannan, in the southeast.? There oculd be two or three of them including in Yunnan. Bing features it on the map but as it uses the geodata coordinates it is slightly off as you can see by my coordinates which zoom in directly on the settlement.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:16, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:13, 22 April 2011 (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.