Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bi'r bin Ghunayma

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 13:56, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bi'r bin Ghunayma

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Another unreferenced Libyan "village" for which there is no Arabic Wiki article and where the co-ordinates are open desert. Nothing found in my WP:BEFORE but mirrors of this page searching both with the arabic name given on the page and the Romanised version.

Based on the creator this was likely algorithmically-created based on GEOnet Names Server data which is unreliable. FOARP (talk) 10:42, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Libya-related deletion discussions. FOARP (talk) 10:42, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:17, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete it’s a well. Horribly reminiscent of Carlossuarez46‘s endless Iranian water pumps. Mccapra (talk) 12:00, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mccapra - it is, very much so. In Blofeld's defence he admits that this methodology wasn't the best and also agrees that something should be done about his mass-created articles, though his favoured solution is redirection, which is unworkable in this case (are we supposed to redirect the names of all the wells in this district to the district article?). Additionally the articles were created before many of the standards that would have stopped them were decided on.

The question is what to do about the 181 other articles that were created on the same day as this one (see 18 May 2008 here). Clicking on a few of them (Oukredo - unreferenced, Taban, Libya - a checkpoint, Al-Jweideh - potentially just an unofficial neighbourhood or jail in Amman) it's just not looking good, and he was 'writing' hundreds of these articles every day for years. Had the Lugnuts Olympians RFC passed then that would offer a solution, but based on the close of that RFC I'm not sure what we're supposed to do here. FOARP (talk) 12:35, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I’ll think about that and maybe two or three of us can take it on as a project. Mccapra (talk) 16:09, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Bi'r means "well". It's literally a well, which as far as I know is not notable. If anyone wants to find WP:GNG-worthy sources for a well in the middle of the desert, feel free to do it. Chaotic Enby (talk) 19:11, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete it's a well in the desert? I suppose it could be notable due to appearing in films with Omar Sharif or something, but I have my doubts this would be one of those cases. Not meeting GNG. Oaktree b (talk) 19:27, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
A few mentions in German books in Gbooks and a map. I wonder if this was involved in some obscure WW2 battle in North Africa? I'm not seeing notability, still. Oaktree b (talk) 19:29, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The books I found refer to other "bin Ghunyama" things, I couldn't find anything for our well? Chaotic Enby (talk) 20:23, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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