Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Saint-Lin, Quebec

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 of the debate was keep. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Saint-Lin, Quebec

This article isn't even a stub

• Delete per nomination. --Voyager 22:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, expand, and move to Saint-Lin-Laurentides, Quebec. Article does need to be expanded to include census data, as per requirements for US small towns, but copy/pasted government data aside it is contains about as much original information as Birmingham, Iowa, for example. GeeJo _{(t) (c)} 23:08, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Ahem, that's Saint-Lin—Laurentides, Quebec which also need an article, but since there are two components to the municipality, there can be up to 3 articles. Oh, and keep of course. -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:12, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Earl, Saint-Lin-Laurentides isn't an electoral district. You know perfectly well that Canadian geographical names only have em-dashes in them when they're electoral districts, not when they're just plain old towns and cities. Bearcat 05:10, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
      • The Quebec federation of municipalities, or whatever they call it use an em-dash. [1] I am inclined to believe them. Meanwhile, I believe Stats can uses Saint-Lin - Laurentides, Quebec while I have also seen Saint-Lin--Laurentides, Quebec. -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:32, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
        • What the municipality itself (or the MRC) uses would be the only thing relevant. StatCan would be entirely irrelevant. --rob 05:42, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
        • The municipality and the MRC both use a single hyphen on their own web pages. I'd take those as the main authorities in this regard. But there's always the option of contacting someone to clarify, if you'd like. Bearcat 05:48, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep towns.--Nicodemus75 23:13, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Just found the data needed for the article at Statistics Canada. Don't currently have time to work it in myself though. GeeJo _{(t) (c)} 23:25, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, expand and move per above. Towns are inherently notable. 23skidoo 23:50, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep move and expand as peer GeeJo real place with real communities of interest. Capitalistroadster 00:45, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand.Gateman1997 01:02, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Wikipedia precedent has already pretty unequivocally confirmed that real identifiable communities always merit articles — and fer the love of deity, this particular community is the birthplace of a former Prime Minister of Canada (Wilfrid Laurier, for the record). I'd suggest speedy keep if that were remotely close to being an accepted policy. Bearcat 01:33, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, naturally. Fg2 04:17, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per precident. But I really dislike how it's considered ok to make an article about a municipality without one single link (initially), making it difficult for somebody not familiar with the place to verify, or find more info. I first thought Saint-Lin-Laurentides is the official name of the municipality, which is the lowest order of government, with no furhter legal subdivisions. That's why I initially added a link to their web site. But, comments above, about 2 components, leave me confused as to what the article is about. --rob 05:26, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Not only is it a fairly large town, it has other claims to notability. Luigizanasi 07:08, 5 November 2005 (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.