borisceranic
Joined: 13/03/2019 21:56:40
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Hey everyone! My first post here, woohoo
I'm writing to you because I found this A class of data in the database, going by the name "Lenger Qalasy": http://www.geonames.org/1537275/lenger-qalasy.html.
My OCD ticked because I found that is defined with following attributes in the database:
Code:
ID: 1537275
Name: Lenger Qalasy
Coordinates: 42.18301 69.88393
Class: A
Code: ADM2
ISO2 code: KZ
Admin1: Shymkent (undefined)
Admin2: 1537275
Admin3 & Admin4: <empty>
Now, the reason I believe it should be deleted is all of following together:
1. Qalasy means City in Kazah language, after transliteration to latin alphabet (see faint grayed-out text below original text in Kazah, saying Qalası).
2. Because I suspected it could be a mistaken entry due to #1, I searched the DB, and found PPLA2 entry for the town named Lenger.
3. Looking up given coordinates given in ID:1537275 via OpenStreetMap shows a "settlement" with the name of Lenger. The city is awfully close to the neighboring city of Shymkent, which was quite recently became a "city of republican status" (official announcement in Russian, translated to English using Google Translate). This is most likely the cause of confusion and the reason why someone entered this data into the database.
4. I tried to verify the fact that Lenger exists only as a city, and not as a region by going to several sources:
- Ministry of national economy of the Republic of Kazahstan, Committee on Statistics, Information about Population. You would be looking for this document (.rar archive, in Russian), filename Б-21-09-4_2018.xlsx, sheet 04-09, row 359, which lists Lenger as a city, pop. 24,025 (Jan 1st, 2019).
- Wikipedia article on Lenger (in English, in Kazah) says:
Lenger [...] is a city in Tole Bi District, Turkistan Region of Kazakhstan. [...] Lenger is the administrative center of the Tole Bi District.
Well, confirming that something doesn't exists is quite difficult However, I did my best to confirm that Lenger Qalasy does not exist as an administrative division in Kazahstan, and should be deleted from the database.
Thank you
P.S. I tried doing this cleanup myself, hoping it is a moderated process that would end up with some senior data moderator reviewing my deletion request, and proceed according to his/her wishes... Alas, it is not. It just said "not authorized" or something of the sort.
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