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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mello hi! ( 投稿) 08:36, 15 September 2022 (UTC) reply

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I cannot find evidence that there was a town here. That it was a station is amply documented, but that's ab out all I can find. Mangoe ( talk) 03:00, 25 August 2022 (UTC) reply

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. Shellwood ( talk) 13:35, 25 August 2022 (UTC) reply
• Weak keep: Per "The Indiana Rail Road Company: America's New Regional Railroad" which appears to be a WP:RS, Anita was a village that had a significant population decline by the 1980s (although never itself being particularly large) with it appearing on official Indiana state highway department maps and a commemorative plaque. The plaque has since been removed. It's not the strongest WP:GEOLAND argument, but it seems to have possibly been more than a depot. Tartar Torte 20:25, 25 August 2022 (UTC) reply

  Christopher Rund, Fred W. Frailey, Eric Powell (2012), The Indiana Rail Road Company: America's New Regional Railroad, Indiana University Press, ISBN  9780253356956{{ citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Page number? Djflem ( talk) 21:40, 25 August 2022 (UTC) reply

  Pages 218–219. Sorry, poor work on my part citing a source without providing any actually useful information. Tartar Torte 22:20, 25 August 2022 (UTC) reply

  Djflem, you added a cite for page 218 but I don't see Anita mentioned there. Can you confirm? – dlthewave ☎ 02:47, 8 September 2022 (UTC) reply

  Ref updated in article. Djflem ( talk) 05:25, 8 September 2022 (UTC) reply

• Keep per above and per "Railroad put long-gone Anita on the state map". The Daily Journal (Franklin, Indiana). June 19, 2001. p. 23. Retrieved August 27, 2022. Djflem ( talk) 18:44, 27 August 2022 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:11, 1 September 2022 (UTC) reply

• Keep per TartarTorte and the above sources. Waddles  🗩  🖉 01:05, 2 September 2022 (UTC) reply
• comment I am finding it impossible to reconcile these various sources. The list of surviving Indiana stations is either flat-out wrong, or they think Anita is at a different location, because there weren't any buildings in the area at all from some time in the 1960s up until someone built a manorial house at the end of a long driveway to the west; before that all I can see in the aerials is a quite small building not all that close to the tracks. Even then this looks self-published. There seems to be something wrong with the citation from the INRD book as it isn't consistent with the book's index. Mangoe ( talk) 04:39, 2 September 2022 (UTC) reply

  Which references were you referring to in your nomination that the station was amply documented? Can you please provide them? They are not needed to establish that the town existed, but would be useful to clarify. Thanks. Djflem ( talk) 08:28, 2 September 2022 (UTC) reply

• Keep per the above. While I definitely agree there are plenty of non-populated-place GNIS-spam article stubs that are good to delete, I think we need to be careful to avoid catching legitimate populated places, including those that are very small, or those that are practically extinct but with documented history. In this case it seems most consistent with GEOLAND to retain the article. ╠╣uw [ talk 11:30, 7 September 2022 (UTC) reply
• Delete We have a newspaper article which goes into great detail about a railway depot and associated buildings at this location with no mention of a town. If sources describing a town are found, ping me and I will reconsider. – dlthewave ☎ 18:31, 7 September 2022 (UTC) reply

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Until we can definitively determine whether or not there was a populated place at this title, this AFD shouldn't be closed. Right now, opinions are split about this basic fact.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:10, 8 September 2022 (UTC) reply

That fact has been established, so the AfD can closed: Rund, Christopher (2006), The Indiana Rail Road Company: America's New Regional Railroad, Indiana University Press, pp. 218–219, ISBN  9780253346926, Anita is another town along the line bearing the name of a young lady...By the 1980's the Anita was almost non-existent...The state highway department was on the verge of erasing Anita from map, but proponents of the all-but-forgotten town, successfully petitioned to preverse Anita's identity. The town remained acknowledge on paper and was even marked by a roadside commerative plaque. Djflem ( talk) 05:23, 8 September 2022 (UTC) reply

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