Talk:Taipanxiang

Where? Not on Wikipedia and Google maps finds it challenging? --Traveler100 (talk) 12:02, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Taipan
SWEPT IN FROM VFD smacks of page creation vandalism Hobbitschuster (talk) 14:12, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Let's keep assuming good faith; this IP created only one article. It's not unlikely he/she lives in some (small) town called Taipan - at least by his/her transliteration. I already posted on their talk page with a request for additional info. If that will not come (which is likely), deleting makes sense. JuliasTravels (talk) 19:11, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Guizhou (the province where the only place in China called Taipan that Google seems to know about is located). We don't delete real places. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 19:31, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * All I'm finding for the name is a snake in Australia. K7L (talk) 19:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * K7L: -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 19:38, 12 August 2015 (UTC)


 * The two associations I have with this word are an Australian snake and a misspelling of Taiwan... I don't care whether we delete or redirect, but the article in its current form appears to have no snowball's chance in hell Hobbitschuster (talk) 19:46, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Considering the link AndreCarrotflower gave, making the real place assumption more certain, redirecting is the way to go. JuliasTravels (talk) 08:54, 13 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Actually the Taipan is probably one of the main snakes to worry about in Australia. Real places should obviously get priority, but I wonder if someone may be searching rather for Dangerous_animals ? --Andrewssi2 (talk) 10:15, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Normally I would say redirect a location that has no points of interest to the closest place we have an article on. But as we are only guessing here where or what the contributor is referring to I propose deletion, unless more information is forthcoming. --Traveler100 (talk) 15:19, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * How do you figure we're "guessing"? There is only one Taipan in China. No guesswork necessary. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 17:49, 23 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I only found this one reference in a map area in Guizhou. If I zoom in then I see a town called Taipanxiang. China post gives us a reference here. I'm not completely convinced this is the town the original contributor intended, but if we do keep then can we rename to a place that we know exists? (Taipanxiang) Andrewssi2 (talk) 21:54, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think anyone's arguing to keep the article as-is. It's between "redirect" and "delete outright". -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 22:28, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * But as far as I can tell, the town of 'Taipan' doesn't exist. I'm suggesting rename to Taipanxiang and the redirect to Guizhou --Andrewssi2 (talk) 23:42, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

'''RESULT: renamed to Taipanxiang and redirected to Guizhou. JuliasTravels (talk) 17:58, 31 August 2015 (UTC)