Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bu Shaqq

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The result was merge and redirect to Ras al-Khaimah, but given that this information is already there, effectively just redirect. Michig (talk) 11:58, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bu Shaqq

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Previously an orphan. Searches return hits from all the usual sites (e.g. travelingluck, fallingrain) with location/type from GNIS and no user-added information. Two different locations in those hits, neither of which appear to have a tower of any significance near them. No Panoramio pics near either location show a tower. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 19:32, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unless non-English sources are provided. Google Books and News provided nothing relevant but it's likely any or all sources are not English or Internet-based. Honestly, there really isn't much information describing this tower. SwisterTwister talk 21:33, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge/redirect to Ras al-Khaimah: the article does have a ref (gazetteer) and coordinates. In the future if you see such a geographical one-liner, please don't waste people time and just merge into the best fit notable geographical article. Staszek Lem (talk) 22:51, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Please see Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features) (and share your thoughts about promotion of WP:NGEO to the status of a guideline. Staszek Lem (talk) 22:41, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Arab Emirates-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:38, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:38, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 23:31, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The coordinates given in the article are for what is (using Google Maps) apparently a bit of desert, with some buildings within a few hundred metres but nothing that looks like a tower. The coordinates are also within the territory of Sharjah, not that of Ras al-Khaimah, as stated in the article. It is possible that it is just the coordinates that are wrong - some of the Google sources give alternative coordinates which would place it close to Ras al-Khaimah itself, but I don't seem able to verify that it is there either. PWilkinson (talk) 14:08, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 06:27, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to Ras al-Khaimah. So far, English sources seem verifiable but none imply notability. Native language sources do not seem to have been found. (Indeed, I could not find the Arabic spelling of Bu Shaqq at all; I searched with the most intuitive spelling.) If reliable sources for notability will be found, a merge for the while will have done no harm. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 19:25, 25 December 2012 (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.