Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geographic center of Belarus

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) HistoricalAccountings (talk) 23:54, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Geographic center of Belarus

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No indication of notability with substantive sources. There is a small marker at this location [1] but every country has a center and sources don't establish notability of this one. Prod removed without explaination as usual. Reywas92^Talk 04:11, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 04:11, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Belarus-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 04:11, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This is standard information for any country. To only record this for countries like the UK and US would be systemic bias contrary to core policy. Note that Belarus is especially notable as it is commonly thought to be the geographical centre of Europe and there are markers for that too. Andrew🐉(talk) 10:47, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you know, there's already Geographical midpoint of Europe, completely irrelevant to this article, that actually does have significant sources! Reywas92^Talk 18:49, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep so that, subject to editorial consensus, this can be merged to List of extreme points of Belarus extending the scope of that article as has been done with some other countries. In my view there is no need to alter the title of the target. Keep the redirect so it can remain in Category:Geographical centres. AFD is a very poor forum for constructive editing so I do not think AFD should mandate any particular merge. Thincat (talk) 11:58, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep: This is standard information for any country, and Belarus should not be singled out because someone is unfamiliar with the location. The size of the "marker" should not dictate the "nobility." There should not even be questions about the nobility here as it is geographic identification. Additionally, an image and references were added. Partizan Kuzya (talk) 13:43, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Not notable The Keep !votes should be disregarded by the closer as they don't provide any evidence that the topic is notable (I can't find any either). A merge to geography of Belarus is possible, but probably not List of extreme points of Belarus which has similar notability issues. (t · c) buidhe 13:29, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

→Very interesting... By the same token, "Not notable !votes should be disregarded because they do not provide any evidence..."Partizan Kuzya (talk) 01:48, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: There are geographic center points for many countries on Wikipedia: Australia, the USA, Canada, most of the US states, even|center points of the US counties. Why is it OK to discriminate against Belarus? If Belarusian geographic center is deleted, we need to nominate to delete all of those other world geographic centers.Partizan Kuzya (talk) 01:51, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.