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The result was delete. An interesting idea better executed than you might expect, as Mandsford notes, but ultimately not the sort of thing Wikipedia is for. Daniel Case 02:11, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of places with numbers in their name[edit]

WP:NOT lists of loosely associated topics. Indiscriminate criteria for a list, and includes places with no actual connection (anything from Eightmile Island to a bus stop in Pakistan). This is just as loosely connected as a list of places with colors in their name would be, or any other arbitrarily chosen theme. Saikokira 01:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. --Malcolmxl5 01:57, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete pure trivia and WP is not a trivia collection Corpx 02:26, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete umm, yeah, loosely associated alright. Resolute 04:19, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a list of barely associated topics. Calgary 07:29, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as loose list and trivia. Useight 08:30, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep I was prepared to hate this list, expecting nothing more than a list of American and British podunks like Three Mile Island and Thousand Oaks. However, the author traces the origins of places all over the world, so that Cuatro Caminos, Four Corners, Kiryat Arba, Melipilla, Quattro Castella, Quatre-Champs, Vierkirchen, and Y Ffor are all together. This one does need a lot of paring down, needs a lot of work, the title sounds like a category on Jeopardy... but I see an encyclopedic value in articles that have the etymology of names. I remember Mario Pei wrote about a British location called "Torpenhow Hill" -- all four syllables were a word for hill, so it was, as he said, Hillhillhill Hill. Anyway, I encourage the author to voluntarily take this down and move it to a User page, work on it, figure a way this might go. Save it to your hard drive, look for other articles about place name origins, since this may be an "orphaned" article. Mandsford 11:44, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- A more precise translation of Torpenhow, I think, would be Peak-head-height. —Tamfang 19:45, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Meaningless random coincidence. Golfcam 12:16, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete meaningless, trivial, random association. Hut 8.5 14:20, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a list of loosely associated topics. Same kind of reasoning behind the "List of songs with X in the title" type discussions. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 17:39, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete list of loosely associated topics. Oysterguitarist 20:02, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Unmaintainable list, will likely never be complete. It would come to hundreds of printed pages if it were even 10% complete. Blueboy 96 20:19, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:TRIVIA--JForget 23:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, although it's the only possible place where any list could include both Two Harbors, Minnesota and Three Cocks, Wales. They forgot Nine Mile Creek in Bloomington, Minnesota, though. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 04:44, 18 July 2007 (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.