Wikipedia talk:Notability (geographic features)

Notability of Category 2 listings in New Zealand

This guideline states that nationally protected buildings with more than just mere statistics are presumed notable. Would this apply to category 2 heritage listings in NZ? See List of category 2 historic places in Auckland and List of category 1 historic places in Auckland for comparison. Abydocomist (talk) 07:34, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Looking at [1] as an example, it looks like only statistics are available. However, I'm not sure how to parse the guideline --- does the "and" bind more tightly than the "or"? i.e., does "more than mere statistics" apply to all official historical features, or just the ones that are not "cultural heritage" or "national heritage"? I'm not sure. — hike395 (talk) 11:32, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Some like those would obviously not meet notability (based on the heritage listing alone), but others like: [2], do have more than just mere statistics written about them. Abydocomist (talk) 19:14, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Several unincorporated places in the US

Perhaps within Wikipedia's home country, can be found several places that fail WP:GEOLAND? For example, Dott, Pennsylvania article contains only a single paragraph consisting of a single sentence and an infobox. Yet having only one source that does not back it up (statistical listing). This should be merged with Bethel Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, and all other uninc. places with no meaningful content be merged with the article of the township; the article of the township better be expanded. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 04:39, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, there's still an endless amount of WP:GNIS junk out there. PA is a bad one on this, with lots of names on the map that were nothing more than a handful of homes. Yes, you should absolutely merge these empty pages to the township article, which is the actual recognized place. Reywas92^Talk 15:25, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

As to the endless amount of WP:GNIS junk, Ébresztőföl appears to be creating numerous stubs based solely on GNIS references. As previous discussed, something identified as a "populated place" in GNIS does not automatically confer notability, as many of these are no more than a road crossing with a store or a church nearby at the time the data was collected and might not even exist at present. older ≠ wiser 14:57, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

I don't see any articles created by Ébresztőföl. Deleted? --Altenmann >talk 15:49, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Oops, seems Ébresztőföl wasn't the creator, only adding them to disambiguation pages. A few of them do have some other references, but many don't. For example, Water Valley, New York, Pontiac, New York, Pinehurst, New York, Dellwood, New York, and Carnegie, New York. Williston, New York, Sand Hill, New York have nondescript photographs that could be anywhere but have only a GNIS reference. older ≠ wiser 16:09, 22 September 2024 (UTC)