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.
This is the best I can do here. I've turned up a couple passing mentions to a "White Stick addition" to Mabscott, but Mabscott's on the other side of Beckley from this place, so that must be something different. Kenny's West Virginia Place Names has
Whitestick Creek but no community by this name. Searching brings up literally hundreds of passing mentions to Whitestick Creek, Big White Stick Creek, and Little White Stick Creek, but only the single passing mention to a rail station for any sort of human site. Topos show a single building along the rail tracks. I'm seeing no indication that
WP:GEOLAND or
WP:GNG could be met here.
Hog FarmTalk05:22, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
This is in a mining area near Beckley. It's likely a mine, possibly of a "White Stick Coal Company" whose "White Stick Mine" was "located on the Piney Branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio Raiload" in 1917, but I cannot in fact read a source for that. As noted in the nomination, the creeks all come up when looking for sources, but they are all in different locations to this. The nearest creek to the location here is Cranberry. We've got a historian in 2019 who has a list of place names, but giving nothing but coördinates, no actual history. We have Jenkins with dates and no statement of what the name refers to, but Jenkins's only possible sources for something that it is claimed didn't exist before 1911, from what's cited, are maps. Including the GNIS compiler in 1997, who used "(historical)", it seems that we have three people who found a dot on some maps throughout a period. The newspaper says station and freight train, and that would align with a mine that used the railroad for haulage. If we cannot reliably tell what the subject even is, which is the case unless someone can find something readable about the mine, there's no basic context for building an article upon.
Uncle G (
talk)
06:29, 24 March 2022 (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.
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.
This is the best I can do here. I've turned up a couple passing mentions to a "White Stick addition" to Mabscott, but Mabscott's on the other side of Beckley from this place, so that must be something different. Kenny's West Virginia Place Names has
Whitestick Creek but no community by this name. Searching brings up literally hundreds of passing mentions to Whitestick Creek, Big White Stick Creek, and Little White Stick Creek, but only the single passing mention to a rail station for any sort of human site. Topos show a single building along the rail tracks. I'm seeing no indication that
WP:GEOLAND or
WP:GNG could be met here.
Hog FarmTalk05:22, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
This is in a mining area near Beckley. It's likely a mine, possibly of a "White Stick Coal Company" whose "White Stick Mine" was "located on the Piney Branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio Raiload" in 1917, but I cannot in fact read a source for that. As noted in the nomination, the creeks all come up when looking for sources, but they are all in different locations to this. The nearest creek to the location here is Cranberry. We've got a historian in 2019 who has a list of place names, but giving nothing but coördinates, no actual history. We have Jenkins with dates and no statement of what the name refers to, but Jenkins's only possible sources for something that it is claimed didn't exist before 1911, from what's cited, are maps. Including the GNIS compiler in 1997, who used "(historical)", it seems that we have three people who found a dot on some maps throughout a period. The newspaper says station and freight train, and that would align with a mine that used the railroad for haulage. If we cannot reliably tell what the subject even is, which is the case unless someone can find something readable about the mine, there's no basic context for building an article upon.
Uncle G (
talk)
06:29, 24 March 2022 (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.