Talk:Dibrova, Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast

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Notability

BoyTheKingCanDance, WP:GEOLAND tells us that "Populated, legally recognized places are typically presumed to be notable, even if their population is very low". I infer that this place is notable. (If I have overlooked some factor, please let me know.) -- Hoary (talk) 10:13, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi my friend Hoary, I hope you're fine. I think I made my decision to add the template based on the word townlet, which sounds like a whistlestop and did not suggest to me a legally recognized place. But I'm very open to being wrong. If you say it's a legally recognized place, I'm happy to remove the tag. I'll do that now. Best regards, BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 11:11, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

BoyTheKingCanDance, to me "townlet" means no more or less than "little town"; but the population (even as presumably measured before the "separatists" or Russians had embarked on a full-scale war, and thus before recent depopulation) seems too low for any kind of "town". However, it's possible that Ukraine has a hierarchy that includes what are conventionally englished as "villages", "towns", and (between those two) "townlets". Perhaps Danielg532 will comment. ¶ Category:Villages in Sievierodonetsk Raion is a subcategory of Category:Villages in Luhansk Oblast, categorizing as the former makes categorizing under the latter superfluous; as both Category:Villages in Luhansk Oblast and (indirectly) Category:Villages in Sievierodonetsk Raion are subcategories of Category:Villages in Ukraine, categorizing as either the first or the second makes categorizing under the third superfluous. (See Wikipedia:Categorization#Diffusing large categories.) Or am I overlooking something here? -- Hoary (talk) 23:34, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are correct (My apology) :) Thank you revert the change and fixing the article! Danielg532 (talk) 23:36, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging others in conversation, Danielg532, Hoary, and BoyTheKingCanDance. The issue with this article, and several others by this same editor, is that there is nothing to say that this is a "Populated, legally recognized place". Normally, census data would suffice for this. In this article, there are 5 references, the first is simple mention, 2 of the others, CBC and The Guardian, do not mention the locale, the Critical Threats ref is a dead link, and the final one is a non-reliable source.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:48, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Reasonable points, onel5969. I retract my "inference" above. -- Hoary (talk) 21:42, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
These are the ones which look simple, but when you delve into them, they are not so easy. I can't speak for every NPPer, but most of us, our inclination is to mark them "reviewed" and move on. But if they can't be verified, they shouldn't remain, imho. A couple of months ago, there were over a thousand 1-2 line stubs made about supposedly populated places in Uzbekistan. For the most part, they all used the same one or two sources, neither of which were valid. It was a bear going through all of them (for which I was roundly chastised by several admins for doing initially). Regardless, thank you for the response. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 22:03, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]