Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/General Service Area

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 was delete. Davewild (talk) 17:45, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

General Service Area

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Fails WP:N?? This article (IMO) lacks notability as Nova Scotia, Canada seems to be the only place in the world that uses this designation. I think the project would be better served by simply using the terms village, town or city. I was unable to find any citations or secondary references. Regards, Aloha27 talk 00:11, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 May 12. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 00:34, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nova Scotia-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:05, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~Comment~~ Delete – Not much substance there and it seems of marginal notability at best. It appears that GSA is a very narrowly defined term relating to E-911 services in Nova Scotia. The first ref is to a pilot project final report and its recommendation: "In place of the E-911 reference to "community" it is recommended, for at least the purpose of the NSCAF initiative, that the areas be renamed as General Service Areas (GSA)." In addition, the article was created by a confirmed sockpuppet. That fact alone shouldn't preclude keeping it, but this sockfarm has made a bunch of dubious edits in the past and caused a lot of disruption. Mojoworker (talk) 17:35, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, the second major contributor to the article has now been blocked as a sockpuppet of the same user. See WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Matthvm/Archive. Mojoworker (talk) 20:07, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:38, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - this is just way too broad, and its meaning in Nova Scotia is not the same elsewhere. It just means any area that has some kind of service, whether it's cell phone coverage, bus route, health care etc. [1], [2], [3] Additionally it doesn't seem that notable within NC either, but could be more of a mention in the NC article I guess. —Мандичка^YO 😜 04:21, 19 May 2015 (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.