Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chinese Coal Mine, Texas

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:40, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese Coal Mine, Texas

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Both sources used are unreliable. It's a bit hard to look for because the article isn't clear if it's in Jeff Davis on Bandera County, and it doesn't seem to have a GNIS entry. Newspapers.com is just giving me results for coal mines in China, and searching in other locations doesn't bring up anything that indicates that this meets WP:GNG or WP:GEOLAND. Hog Farm _Talk 04:04, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 04:04, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 04:04, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It seems to place that attracts people who explore these things. Let's see if more information can be found and the article improved. Super (talk) 06:37, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The only sources for this are blogs and or user-submitted websites, which can't even really agree on where this is supposed to be. No joy with Google or my university database. Fails notability. -Indy beetle (talk) 07:24, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Ghost towns can be notable if they had legal recognition or significant coverage in the past, but this one had neither. It's not even clear that there was a "town" of any sort here. –dlthewave ☎ 16:10, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Agree with dlthewave. This really is just a result of the practise on Wikipedia of labelling every location that you have a source saying was once a "populated place" that is obviously not populated now a "ghost town". The ghosttowns.com source, which is not reliable since it is user-generated content, notably doesn't say it was ever actually a community of any sort - from the description it is an abandoned, completely un-notable mine.

This tendency to label all these places "ghost towns" has led to counties, particularly in California (e.g., Nevada county), which there are more "ghost town" articles for on Wikipedia than there are articles for inhabited locations. A quick review shows nearly all of these were likely mines, camps, fords, bridges, farms, ranches, stations etc. etc. etc.

In reality, even in places that saw a gold rush or whatever, there should not be more than a few "ghost town" articles for each US county since very few places with legal recognition totally disappeared, and the ones that weren't legally recognised rarely pass WP:GNG. FOARP (talk) 19:53, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per FOARP and Dlthewave. Jobie James (talk) 05:55, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per FOARP. ~Junedude433 (talk) 04:09, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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