Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barandal
It has been my long-time philosophy in Wikipedia that majority of barangays in the Philippines do not deserve articles per . Sure,  suggests that barangays are inherently notable because they are populated and legal entities and with elected officials. But we don't confer inherent notableness to gated communities, suburbs, city/town districts, and quarters, even if all are populated, many are legally recognized, and some have elected officials. Yes, barangays are officially local governments in the Philippines, but many barangays are actually no more than one or two city blocks. For example, the capital city Manila has 897 barangays all with numeric names like "Barangay 1" and "Barangay 2". If  didn't exist, there would hardly be any question that most if not all Manila barangays are not notable. But the guideline (which is ''not'' policy, if I may add) suggests that Wikipedia ought to have individual articles on all of these 897 barangays. For another example, Pasay has 201 barangays, also all named numerically. http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2973859 Here is the boundary of Barangay 86 in Pasay as shown in OpenStreetMap; it is approximately 1 hectare in size and covers just 1 city block.To provide more context to this AfD, the question of notability for barangays has been a frequent topic in the Philippine Wikipedia community and has been discussed since almost 10 years now. Here's a Wikipedia_talk:Tambayan_Philippines/Archive_2#Barangays|discussion in 2005 and a Wikipedia_talk:Tambayan_Philippines/Archive15#Barangay_notability|discussion in 2008 for your reference. Wikipedia:Tambayan_Philippines/Frequent_discussions/Articles_on_barangays|There is an outdated page that lists various barangay AfD outcomes and as you can see, it's a mixed bag of keeps, merges, deletes, and no consensus outcomes. There used to be a separate article about Barangay Tisa in Cebu City, but a discussion resulted in a consensus that Barangays in Cebu City be created instead. In the intervening years, even that list article was redirected to Cebu City. The same happened with Barangays of Barugo, Leyte—it has since been redirected to Barugo, Leyte.My delete vote is ''weak'' because my tendency is to say that all of Calamba's barangays are not inherently notable as I argue above. But I think the articles needs individual AfDs in order to determine actual notability per barangay
— User:Seav, 14:04, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:NOTABILITY||WP:GEOLAND||WP:GEOLAND (Wikipedia:Notability)