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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 ( talk) 02:35, 17 November 2021 (UTC) reply

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A GNIS location that is not a true populated place. There is a Hartsville Fire Company – according to its website that got its name from a hotel of the same name at the crossroads – that serves Warminster, but that seems to be the only reference that exists to Hartsville outside of GNIS, therefore the place fails WP:GEOLAND. snood1205( Say Hi! (talk)) 18:42, 10 November 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Snood1205: I recognize that it is often hard to find references for a tiny settlement, but I wish people would stop bringing them to AfD. We risk losing a real place when a place with hard-to-find references is nominated. Eastmain ( talkcontribs) 21:59, 10 November 2021 (UTC) reply

I used to think this way and then I saw the sheer quantity of one-line articles that a handful of editors churned out at a rate that was sometimes as high as one every ten seconds with no care at all for whether they had any notability or if they had even found any real evidence for their existence. Deleting these micro-stubs does not prevent -at all- the people who live in or near these places re-creating them with actual content. Indeed it actually tends to encourage that to happen, as the absence of an article encourages them to create one. EDIT: as an example, see the location of Highland Park, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the same county. Absolutely nothing in the article, two sources which are both bad for determining whether the place is even populated, since GNIS is unreliable for that and Hometown Locator is just a mirror site, and the actual location given appears to be an open field. FOARP ( talk) 14:44, 11 November 2021 (UTC) reply

Keep: quite substantial expansion since this nomination, by several editors, give this a lot of good references and some decent content as well. For what it's worth, I also found this. jp× g 22:42, 15 November 2021 (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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 ( talk) 02:35, 17 November 2021 (UTC) reply

Hartsville, Pennsylvania (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log)
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A GNIS location that is not a true populated place. There is a Hartsville Fire Company – according to its website that got its name from a hotel of the same name at the crossroads – that serves Warminster, but that seems to be the only reference that exists to Hartsville outside of GNIS, therefore the place fails WP:GEOLAND. snood1205( Say Hi! (talk)) 18:42, 10 November 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Snood1205: I recognize that it is often hard to find references for a tiny settlement, but I wish people would stop bringing them to AfD. We risk losing a real place when a place with hard-to-find references is nominated. Eastmain ( talkcontribs) 21:59, 10 November 2021 (UTC) reply

I used to think this way and then I saw the sheer quantity of one-line articles that a handful of editors churned out at a rate that was sometimes as high as one every ten seconds with no care at all for whether they had any notability or if they had even found any real evidence for their existence. Deleting these micro-stubs does not prevent -at all- the people who live in or near these places re-creating them with actual content. Indeed it actually tends to encourage that to happen, as the absence of an article encourages them to create one. EDIT: as an example, see the location of Highland Park, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the same county. Absolutely nothing in the article, two sources which are both bad for determining whether the place is even populated, since GNIS is unreliable for that and Hometown Locator is just a mirror site, and the actual location given appears to be an open field. FOARP ( talk) 14:44, 11 November 2021 (UTC) reply

Keep: quite substantial expansion since this nomination, by several editors, give this a lot of good references and some decent content as well. For what it's worth, I also found this. jp× g 22:42, 15 November 2021 (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.

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