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The result was speedy keep‎. The nominator has withdrawn the nomination. Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:55, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

37th parallel north (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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The only claims for notability (paranormal activity) are completely unsourced. A quick search brought up a book called "Earth Frequency Sacred Sites, Vortexes, Earth Chakras, and Other Transformational Places" by an author that describes herself as "a professional intuitive coach, frequency specialist, energy worker, spiritual advisor, medium, and animal communicator" (not someone who I'd consider a reliable source) and the name "Paranormal Highway" only leads to a very poorly reviewed film.

The only other claim to fame is as the borders of some US states, however that doesn't mean it requires its own wiki page

Unless someone can find a good book or article written on it that I missed, I think deletion is a reasonable response. Speederzzz (Talk) (Stalk) 12:23, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Paranormal and Geography. Speederzzz (Talk) (Stalk) 12:23, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Given that we have almost every single other parallel right up to the Arctic Ocean, isn't the reasonable response to take the badly sourced rubbish out and leave an article that looks like 38th parallel north? Uncle G (talk) 12:52, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  That might be a good point, actually. I am unsure about the notability for articles on such lines. For example I don't really see a reason for 39th parallel north to have it's own page either, but almost every village in Iran has a page IIRC, so maybe geographical topics like this have their own rules for inherent notability.

  Speederzzz (Talk) (Stalk) 13:51, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  After quickly checking it seems that WP:NGEO does say that geographical features do actually have inherent notability. I always forget some things have their own notability criteria (schools was one that got me last time). I'll change the article so it looks like 39th parallel north. Then I'm okay with it staying. Edit: It seems that has already been done. Sorry for the AfD.

  Speederzzz (Talk) (Stalk) 13:56, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep even though the nomination seems to have been withdrawn. As mentioned on the talk page, "The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway" by Ben Mezrich was published in 2016 by Random House and is very possibly the source of the UFO material recently added by Wiikikiki (diff). This was unreferenced but may have been sourced from the book. This was then removed on account of not being referenced but before any {{cn}} warning. There was also some very "bold" editing which added and removed great chunks. I haven't followed up on this. The book has Google and Amazon previews so additional well-referenced material can be relatively easily added. It would anyway be foolish to delete the article which is part of a set but our deletion procedures do not preclude foolishness. Thincat (talk) 14:25, 11 February 2025 (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.