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Hi Mangoe, Thanks for fixing the orientation between Thorne and Hawthorne - I made a dumb mistake and I'm glad you fixed it. I think it is an open question about how to describe Thorne, maybe we can quickly reach consensus. Thorne started out as a railway station, during WW II it was a populated place and now is a railroad junction (or siding). We have citations for the first two, but we don't have a RS for the status today, which is why I did not call Thorne a formerly populated place or a ghost town. The 1945 newspaper article covers the early history reasonably well. The GNIS entry for Thorne says that Thorne is a "Populated Place", see Feature Class Definitions. If Thorne was not a populated place, then GNIS would probably classify it as a Locale or RR Locale, see the Feature Class Definitions. (For example, Rio Vista, Nevada (see GNIS entry for Rio Vista, Nevada) is a "RR Locale". I've asked that it be considered for deletion because of WP:STATION.) Getting back to Thorne, if Thorne is a populated place, then it is notable, see WP:GEOLAND. If it was never a populated place and always a station, then it is possibly not notable. I agree that Thorne is fairly minor, but there is a WP:RS article from 1945 about Thorne. Also, there are two non-RS websites ( nvexpeditions and bascojoenv (the latter probably copied data from the former)) that state that about 100 people lived at Thorne during WW II. I was not about to find a reputable source for about 100 people living there, but I can keep looking. Could we say that Thorne was a populated place and now is a railroad junction? Do we have a WP:RS for what the current status of Thorne is? Cxbrx ( talk) 05:47, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Mangoe, Thanks for fixing the orientation between Thorne and Hawthorne - I made a dumb mistake and I'm glad you fixed it. I think it is an open question about how to describe Thorne, maybe we can quickly reach consensus. Thorne started out as a railway station, during WW II it was a populated place and now is a railroad junction (or siding). We have citations for the first two, but we don't have a RS for the status today, which is why I did not call Thorne a formerly populated place or a ghost town. The 1945 newspaper article covers the early history reasonably well. The GNIS entry for Thorne says that Thorne is a "Populated Place", see Feature Class Definitions. If Thorne was not a populated place, then GNIS would probably classify it as a Locale or RR Locale, see the Feature Class Definitions. (For example, Rio Vista, Nevada (see GNIS entry for Rio Vista, Nevada) is a "RR Locale". I've asked that it be considered for deletion because of WP:STATION.) Getting back to Thorne, if Thorne is a populated place, then it is notable, see WP:GEOLAND. If it was never a populated place and always a station, then it is possibly not notable. I agree that Thorne is fairly minor, but there is a WP:RS article from 1945 about Thorne. Also, there are two non-RS websites ( nvexpeditions and bascojoenv (the latter probably copied data from the former)) that state that about 100 people lived at Thorne during WW II. I was not about to find a reputable source for about 100 people living there, but I can keep looking. Could we say that Thorne was a populated place and now is a railroad junction? Do we have a WP:RS for what the current status of Thorne is? Cxbrx ( talk) 05:47, 27 January 2020 (UTC)