Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al twebia District

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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:03, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Al twebia District

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This appears to be a hoax. The district does not appear on the citation that was quoted (I have removed the citation, which referred to the Statoids website). The author's only contributions on English Wikipedia have been to create this article and to add the supposed district to the Administrative divisions section at Libya. Most sources list 22 districts in Libya after 2007: this would be a 23rd district. Skinsmoke (talk) 12:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:27, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:28, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as hoax There is a place called "at Tuwaybiah" in a location approximately where the subject of the article is supposed to be. I can find nothing about it. However, Az Zawiyah District has three of the same neighbours as the alleged Al twebia District - in the same directions. This is not physically possible, especially as they both have coastline. The different neighbour is Az Zawiyah District, which would put Al twebia in between Az Zawiyah and Tripoli (Tarabulus). Al twebia is mentioned in places like http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art69103.asp which tells us that Libya has 22 districts, and proceeds to list 23 (I'm contacting them). Al twebia is seemingly not known to the CIA, who are a fairly reliable source, who count and list 22 districts. I think this article is a tweaked copy of Az Zawiyah District. At Tuwaybiah seems to be a sort of semi-urban area from the Google Maps image. Peridon (talk) 17:24, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Looks made up--Antwerpen Synagoge (talk) 17:14, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as hoax. There is no mention of this district on the official Libyan government pages. --Bejnar (talk) 22:54, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Seems to be a hoax, no mention of this on government pages. Superman7515 (talk) 00:33, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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