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The result was DABify. Clear consensus that this shouldn't exist as a stand-alone article, but options are all over as to what to do with it. I'm going to endorse the WP:DAB idea, on the assumption that those arguing for a merge would go along with this. It's not clear there's anything worth merging, but the existing text will still be available in the history if anybody wants it. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:43, 25 February 2017 (UTC) reply

French Island, Maine

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Non-notable uninhabited island. Asserted to have eagles nesting there, but sources only support existence. DePRODded as "Geographical features are notable", but WP:NGEO specifies that "Named natural features are often notable, provided information beyond statistics and coordinates is known to exist.", and no such information has been shown to exist. NGEO advises "If a Wikipedia article cannot be developed using known sources, information on the feature can instead be included in a more general article on local geography.", but my earlier attempt to redirect to the (unsourced, possibly not even notable) article on Ellis Pond was reverted. Also something weird/unreliable about size as it's apparently a 3-acre island in a 1.43 acre pond! Pam D 15:03, 15 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maine-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:10, 15 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:10, 15 February 2017 (UTC) reply

• Merge to Ellis Pond. It exists ( example source), but not finding much source coverage to qualify a standalone article. Also, Ellis pond is around 920 acres in size ( source), not 1.43 acres as incorrectly stated in the nomination. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:10, 15 February 2017 (UTC) reply

The nominator was quoting the size from the then current, unsourced, version of Ellis Pond. Thanks for correcting and sourcing the article. Pam D 18:32, 15 February 2017 (UTC) reply

• Merge to Ellis Pond seems reasonable. Glad that an AFD has been productive already in getting some improvement done, which is relatively rare. AFDs are usually a waste of time. This one might not have been necessary either, perhaps it could have been redirected/merged without contention of a PROD then AFD. I am pretty sure that I have redirected/merged a lot of articles, without ever finding AFDs to be useful. -- do ncr am 22:39, 15 February 2017 (UTC) reply

My attempt to redirect was reverted twice, by the creating editor, so I didn't want to get involved in an edit war. Pam D 22:55, 15 February 2017 (UTC) reply

• Probably needs to be a disambiguation between this French Island, Maine and the one in Old Town, Maine, which has attracted some coverage in relaible sources [1] [2] and which shows up in news reporting [3] so is a plausible search term.-- Jahaza ( talk) 19:04, 16 February 2017 (UTC) reply

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