Deletion of Melbourne, Nova Scotia

Comment: per . Recognised settlement
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GEOLAND)

Comment: We have a Lower Melbourne, Nova Scotia.... As for Melbourne proper, while that are better known Melbournes, this Melbourne passes  - and even has an adjacent lake named after itself - https://novascotia.ca/natr/wildlife/habitats/sanctuaries/pdfs/melbourne.pdf (which is a game sanctuary for waterfowl
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GEOLAND)

Comment: to Municipality of the District of Yarmouth.  does not confer an automatic inclusion freebie on every named settlement that exists — that attaches to the level of ''incorporated municipalities'', not necessarily to individual neighbourhoods within them. At that smaller level, the notability test is the ability to write and |reliably source some actual ''substance'' about the community, not just the ability to see it on a map, and communities which don't have the sources just get redirected to their parent municipality rather than standing alone as permanently unsourced one-line stubs which just state that the place exists, the end. The ''municipality'' is inherently notable per GEOLAND; the individual neighbourhoods within it get their own separate articles only if they can be substanced and sourced well enough to demonstrate a ''reason'' why they ''need'' a separate article from the parent municipality
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GEOLAND||WP:RS)

Comment: The Geographical Names Board of Canada lists Melbourne as an official place namehttp://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/CAYWV, which constitutes legal recognition and qualifies for notability under . As examples of places without legal recognition, GEOLAND lists {{tq| subdivisions, business parks, housing developments, informal regions of a state, unofficial neighborhoods}}, which usually wouldn't show up in a government place name database
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GEOLAND)