Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pointe-Noire District

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The result was delete. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:24, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pointe-Noire District

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I can find no references that this is an actual district in the Republic of Congo. This source (among several others) lists 6 districts in the Kouilou Region, and Pointe-Noire is not one of them. There is a Department by that name, but no district. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 00:49, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:20, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:20, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment looks like it's a commune per [1], should we just rename/update it? SportingFlyer T·C 22:58, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I think that's the same as Pointe-Noire, SportingFlyer. Not sure, but I think Commune and City are interchangeable.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 23:48, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep. Pointe-Noire became its own department aka district in 2003. The relevant template and other pages need to be adjusted, but this article is accurate. --Lockley (talk) 23:36, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- hang on, maybe not. Since a reorganization in 2003 Republic of the Congo has 12 departments. Ten of those departments are broken up into districts. The other two departments, the cities Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, are not subdivided into districts. This article has the District of Pointe-Noire belonging to the Kouilou Region, which was correct before 2003 and certainly wrong today, so perhaps it is cleanest to delete it. --Lockley (talk) 00:42, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:20, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:V. I have no objection to an article about such a district, even if it is in historical terms about an abolished district. However in the absence of sources we may be misleading people, so this must be deleted unless sources can be found.--Pontificalibus 09:25, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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