Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Highweek

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I don't think this article about a former village that is now just a suburb of a larger town, and which has very poor references, is notable enough as a place to standalone as a separate article. I propose that it be deleted and any relevant content merged into the main article of Newton Abbot.

Simple Bob ^{a.k.a. The Spaminator} (Talk) 15:10, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

• Err on the side of keep - it is OK to have articles about suburbs of larger towns, and also about former villages that have now been swallowed up by the towns that surround them - see for example Walton, Aylesbury, a place near my home. It has only just been created and I think some work needs to be done on finding references for it before the decision is made on whether it is kept or not. I'm going to list it as needing rescue therefore. -- role^player 15:48, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.
• Keep. By well established precedent, villages with established names are notable even after they've been engulfed by larger towns. This precedent may well be subject to change: but a fairly well referenced article about an English village with a Saxon etymology, a fifteenth century church, and a pub would seem to be a less than ideal test case to challenge it. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
• Keep. Notability is not temporary. If it was notable as a village, it stays notable whether it remains a village, gets abandoned, or gets absorbed into a larger town. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 18:39, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
• Keep. I've helped tidy it up a bit, removed most of the unencyclopedic stuff and added some refs to show the notability. Merging this much content into Newton Abbot would unbalance that article, so this could be considered to be a WP:SPLIT. What about a speedy keep?  —SMALLJIM  19:09, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

:*Comment I would second a speedy keep due to the improvements made to the article. -- role^player 19:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

• Keep. User:Wikwiltz Thank you to those that have spent time improving the Highweek page. Highweek Village is a destinct part of the town of Newton Abbot, but equally it is acknowledged that is part of the Town administratively. There is a lot of history that can be added such as an old orphanage and demographic data in due course. I think it would be a real shame to delete just because I am learning to use the Wiki format. Thank you again for those helping and I ask doubters to reconsider as it is being improved. —Preceding undated comment added 19:32, 22 February 2011 (UTC).
• Keep. User: Wikwiltz The original 'Highweek Village' page I created recently may need deleting to avoid confusion. It still contains the unformatted coding errors and is a less obvious title for searchers. The village and surrounding Parish are more commonly known as just - Highweek. However I did try and redirect people to the 'Highweek' page that many of you have kindly and impressively updated. This redirect seems to work, if you concur? Thank you. —Preceding undated comment added 00:03, 23 February 2011 (UTC).

:*Comment The redirect is fine. Please note that you only need to say "keep" once. -- role^player 00:05, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

• Keep Well documented and interesting article. --DThomsen8 (talk) 19:06, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

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