Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gwisho Hot-Springs

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 keep. Article appears to meet GNG & consensus overall is to keep (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 00:40, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Gwisho Hot-Springs

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Unsourced article, cannot verify if this source passes our notability guidelines for a place. Salimfadhley (talk) 03:08, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

• Delete: non-notable as per @Salimfadhley. Unsourced tourism promo. Quis separabit? 03:14, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
• Keep: This place is well sourced in books and academic publications. For example here, here, here, here, etc.

There is thus good evidence that this is an important site for tourism, for natural heritage, for archaeology, etc. JMWt (talk) 09:20, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

• Keep - The sources presented by JMWt (even besides the broken link) do show ample coverage satisfying WP:GNG. It should be noted to the nom that if they can't verify the sources because either there is not hyperlink or the sources are print-only, that doesn't mean the topic isn't notable. As per WP:GNG, print sources are valid and they don't have to be linked in the article. --Oakshade (talk) 16:44, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Oops sorry, should work now. JMWt (talk) 16:47, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:36, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

• Keep per JMWt and Oakshade above. This seems to meet our notability criteria and is backed up by valid 3rd party sources. _└ ^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 12:57, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

I am the instructor for the course, African Archaeology, in which the student who wrote this article is enrolled. I can vouch for the fact that Gwisho Hot-Springs is an important archaeological site even though excavated a long time ago and published "only" in print sources. It is, for example, described at some length in Graham Connah's book, "Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to its Archaeology" (Routledge 2004; see pages 22-24).Paffadt (talk) 17:41, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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