I tend to specialise in the Indic articles sphere and yes these things are dreadfully poor and not capable of being sourced in a meaningful manner except to co ordinates which may or may not be correct because the same village names often reappear in various parts of the countries Alas I ve tended to hit the populated places are inherently notable argument although I was involved when nuked a ton of Indian village articles last year It is a real problem but I don t know what the answer is other than dedicated clean ups which in the case of caste clan articles have so far taken me around 18 months and results in a phenomenal amount of fighting SPIs semi protections etc