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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:29, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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This one is an interesting case study in how questionable articles get created: the original stub was laid down by a user with a history of mass-creating stubs, and then Anomie-bot swooped in a grabbed coordinates through GNS-enwiki, and that's basically where things have stood since, modulo some prettification. In the present, geonames acknowledges three places with this name (and a fourth similar), but not this one. Only one of the three is tagged as a "populated place" and I can't verify it, though the aerial suggests there might have been something there at one time. Mangoe (talk) 12:25, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Discuss 12:36, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Somalia-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Discuss 12:36, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - I agree with MT Train - while there are places which have this name, I can't find any support for this particular one. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:17, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - I also couldn't find anything on this. London Hall (talk) 14:23, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• This is another example of a highly dubious stub article. It's certainly not a town. With this name in Somalia there are; two water features, a locality (not real) and this um... slightly trampled bit of ground? However I do see this real village called Dhur Cilaan. Really nothing about anything shows up for me on google searches for Cilaan. Prince of Thieves (talk) 21:46, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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