Talk:Osinovka

Deprod

I have deprodded this page for the following reasons:

Notability criteria do not apply to geographic locations; hence the page cannot be deleted due to the fact that the entries are "unnotable". The only thing that matters is verifiability, and all of the listed places exist (or existed at some point in time).
A person looking for "Osinovka" may be looking for either Osinniki (new name of the town), "Osinovka" in Irkusk Oblast (which was merged into Bratsk), or one of many Osinovkas the rural localities. There is no way of predicting what exactly will be searched. Deleting this dab will deprive readers of the information (however limited) with no side benefits whatsoever.
The very last entry ("other rural localities") can be easily unbundled.
This disambiguation page is a part of a much (much much) larger project on Russian geography. Even when the links are red, they produce backlinks, which are relied upon when categorizing, cross-referencing, and cross-linking other articles.

If you are still unconvinced, I suggest that you AfD this dab. I will then immediately expand the very last entry and create minimal stubs for each of the entries; thus satisfying formal criteria. I am not, however, going to waste time on expanding this now. Please, understand, that Russia has over 160,000 localities (many with identical names), and it is impossible (and impractical) to kill all of the red links at once while this geography project is still in its initial phases of categorizing/cross-linking. Please let me know if you have further questions.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 19:37, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Then perhaps we could redirect it to Osinniki, another ridiculous stub, and have a dab message at the top pointing to another one of those places if an article is ever created. There is no use for this page, really. Reywas92^Talk 19:47, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree there is no use. The page does what it is supposed to—it disambiguates between identical titles. Just because at the moment it has red links and points to a stub is no reason to delete it, as all entries are entirely valid (and should and will eventually have full-size articles). Why are you so insistent on getting rid of this dab? What will that accomplish? How exactly will its deletion aid readers? What harm does it do in its present form?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:50, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]