Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prykarpattia
Keep. (Disclaimer: I restored this article after it was redirected). First, geophysical regions are separate from administrative as concepts, even if the territory overlaps. Things like mountain ranges, lowlands, highlands, valleys and so on are notable, even if often poorly covered in sources (but this is just as true for administrative entities, particularly - non-English). I estimate that about 80% of entries from :pl:Regionalizacja fizycznogeograficzna Polski (Polish Wikipedia version of regions of Poland, with a much more detailed coverage of geophysical regions of Poland) are missing from en wiki. The solution is to write more entries. And they are notable; with regards to Prykarpattia (which may need to be renamed), a search for Polish sources on the ''Podkarpacie'' (the region name in Polish) gives 13k hits on Google Books, and none of them refer to the relatively recent administrative region (here's an English language ref mentioning the "Podkarpacie region": {{cite book|author1=Judy Batt|author2=Kataryna Wolczuk|title=Region, State, and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=sw72GPjF0DYC&pg=PA134|accessdate=12 November 2012|year=2002|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-7146-8225-9|page=134}}, and a quick search shows dozens more, seemingly more popular than Prykarpattia). It is a name for a region near Carpathian Mountains, and while such entities are not as obvious as mountains, they have their (notable) space in the encyclopedias of geography. Anyway, the nom's argument is based on claiming this is a , so let me stress and repeat again that this is not one (a geographical region has a separate notability from an administrative one). Also, simply looking at the maps of the administrative division (:File:Map of Ukraine political simple Oblast Iwano-Frankiwsk.png) and geographical division (:File:Carpathians division.svg, region marked as roman I) shows that the "complete overlap" claim is likely false (also, part of Podkarpacie is in modern Poland, not in Ukraine...). PS. Some further investigation shows we have an article on that region in an even more stubbish form, but at a name that seems more popular in English literature, at Subcarpathia, so: merge
— User:Piotrus, 21:26, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:CONTENTFORK (Wikipedia:Content forking)