Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lles Maria

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep (non-admin closure). John Vandenberg 23:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lles Maria

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Seems likely to be a hoax. "Lles maria"+ Cook -wikipedia returns no Google hits. While it's not impossible that an island in the Cook Islands would have a Welsh name (after all, one of the main islands is Penrhyn), it seems fairly unlikely, especially given the fact that all the islands that make up the Penrhyn Atoll have Cook Island Maori names, other than the hybrid-named Aucklandnui Grutness...wha? 14:32, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

• • Changing original comments to a rename/rewording to reflect the place in French Polynesia, but without the current name as a redirect, since it's an unlikely typo (despite it being the original place for the article). Grutness...wha? 02:15, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as unverifiable. Hell, speedy delete under WP:CSD#A1... actually, don't because it does give some context.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 14:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

• Redirect, and source and create new article if people can do so.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 17:29, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy keep and rename/rewrite. It's redlinked as Îles Maria in the Austral Islands article (on French Polynesia), and mentioned here. Wl219 16:43, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
• It's in the bottom right above the box on this map, as "Maria".-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 17:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and rename Îles Maria. It's an actual island that's part of French Polynesia (the current article seems to incorrectly state it's part of the Cook Islands.) --Oakshade 19:40, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. Note, h i s has the wrong "Maria", it's the one at the same latitude on the far LEFT (west) of the map. (Marked properly here, p. 58, presumably reliably.) The issue seems to be that it's geographically part of the Cook Islands but administratively part of French Polynesia. --Dhartung | Talk 20:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

• Do we have an article for the other, more easterly "Maria"?--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 08:30, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy keep, basis for AfD proposal turns out to be untrue and the article is now correctly spelled and sourced. —David Eppstein 21:20, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

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.