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I live nearby and I have never heard of Brookshire, outside of seeing it on Google maps. No businesses or other properties nearby include Brookshire in their names. There is no sign anywhere for Brookshire. The name of this locale has not even been mentioned in any nearby newspapers. I don't think Wikipedia needs a page for this just because it is in the GNIS. — Preceding
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Delete. I don't think we can base evidence of existence solely on GNIS. This seems to come up quite regularly; place names that are found only in the GNIS database and sites using that database. Pages where the only information is coords and elevation is a red flag for a fictitious/erroneous entry for
WP:GEOLAND cases.
SpinningSpark16:37, 9 July 2019 (UTC)reply
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Spinningspark and
Bearian: The ones I can see are from some magazines about mining. It seems to have been an oil drilling location. However it says nothing in these books beyond the price of the stock from this location. There are three other books, but I can't open them to see the reference. One is "Pisor's Registry of World Record Size Shells". One is about a pet store (which is listed from 1991; I'm very sceptical that this town existed then. The remaining one is "The Stickley Brothers: The Quest for an American Voice", which I searched inside the book and didn't find anything.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
I live nearby and I have never heard of Brookshire, outside of seeing it on Google maps. No businesses or other properties nearby include Brookshire in their names. There is no sign anywhere for Brookshire. The name of this locale has not even been mentioned in any nearby newspapers. I don't think Wikipedia needs a page for this just because it is in the GNIS. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Naddruf (
talk •
contribs)
Delete. I don't think we can base evidence of existence solely on GNIS. This seems to come up quite regularly; place names that are found only in the GNIS database and sites using that database. Pages where the only information is coords and elevation is a red flag for a fictitious/erroneous entry for
WP:GEOLAND cases.
SpinningSpark16:37, 9 July 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Spinningspark and
Bearian: The ones I can see are from some magazines about mining. It seems to have been an oil drilling location. However it says nothing in these books beyond the price of the stock from this location. There are three other books, but I can't open them to see the reference. One is "Pisor's Registry of World Record Size Shells". One is about a pet store (which is listed from 1991; I'm very sceptical that this town existed then. The remaining one is "The Stickley Brothers: The Quest for an American Voice", which I searched inside the book and didn't find anything.
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