Talk:Surobi, Kabul

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Surobi, Kabul → Surobi
Surobi → Surobi (disambiguation)

– This is the only relatively large sized town by the name "Surobi". The other settlements named "Surobi" in Paktika and Nangarhar are merely villages. Surobi in Kabul Province is also famous because of its proximity to three dams - Naghlu Dam, Mahipar Dam and Barqi-Surobi Dam. Most of the times when the word "Surobi" is used in references, it refers to the town in Kabul Province. Check for example this Google News result, which returns results overwhelmingly about the town in Kabul Province when "Surobi" is searched. Khestwol (talk) 20:51, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nom. Khestwol (talk) 10:01, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose we have two articles on the town and the urban area with twice the population. How are readers to know which is meant? In ictu oculi (talk) 11:33, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Which other article? There is one town named Surobi. The other settlements in Paktika and Nangarhar are villages, relatively unimportant if you check references. For example, in the Google News search linked above, can you find even a single reference to the Surobi settlements of Nangarhar or Paktika? All of the news pages refer to the Surobi town of Kabul Province. Here are the first five English-language results from the first page of the Google News link: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. You can also check all of the rest of the results as well, I found that all of the results for "Surobi" are about the Surobi town and district of Kabul Province located on the Kabul River. In these references, "Surobi" refers to the town on the Kabul River, while "Surobi District" (mostly a rural area) refers to the district of which the town Surobi is the capital and main population center. Khestwol (talk) 15:28, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support I would agree with Khestwol here because when one is talking about Surobi, nationally everyone expects that they are referring to the town and district in Kabul. I personally didn't even remember we had two other Surobis in Afghanistan. So it does make sense to have "Surobi" alone for the town and to be more specific for the other two. There is a reason why when you good Surobi, almost every source is about the town/district in Kabul Ketabtoon (talk) 18:39, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]