Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morro

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The result was delete. --BDD (talk) 18:38, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Morro

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines (subscription required) "morro" as simply being the name for a hill or mountain in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas of the United States, and which in some places is used as a proper name for hills or mountains. The contention that a "morro" is in "the shallow waters of a harbor" seems to be completely unsupported beyond one of the meanings of the Spanish word morro being "headland". Google Books searches also produce no references for the claims of "morro"s being commonly made from granite or quartz. The gallery of "Examples" is simply pictures of places with "Morro" in their name (or not at all, in the case of Sugarloaf Mountain, which also happens to be near a place with "Morro" in the name, Morro da Urca, which simply translates as Urca Mountain).

Basically, this whole article seems to be a mess of misunderstandings and synthesis describing something that doesn't actually exist. If that were not the case, I would suggest that the article be redirected to something like granite dome, but that would be extending the life of a falsehood. Perhaps it should just go to mountain. — Scott • talk 22:37, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The nom's rationale pretty much says all that needs to be said. Deor (talk) 12:49, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete without redirection (and tidy anything linking here). Whether the misunderstanding was from some not-quite-reliable source or from editors here, this ... isn't a term in the literature. It simply does not mean what this article, or uses elsewhere in the project, say that it means (which is maybe granite dome, maybe volcanic plug, or maybe just some big hunk of rock). Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 16:14, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000^(talk) 23:48, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.