Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ozenic, Virginia

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 03:36, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ozenic, Virginia

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Tagged as unsourced since 2022; there's a GNIS external link but this place name has apparently been purged from GNIS. This isn't an "unincorporated community", this was a village of the Powhatan confederacy, situated in 1608 on Chickahominy r. in New Kent co., Va. per this. This states that it was the closest out of a set of villages to the James River.

I can find nothing that provides further details. While I am sympathetic to the notability of extinct native settlements, the sum source of knowledge of this source is that somebody wrote in 1608 that this place existed. This would be WP:UNDUE weight to mention at the Powhatan article. Any further sourcing would be from 400+ years ago in an extinct language and almost certainly no longer exists. There's just nothing to say about this place other than that it existed in 1608, and I don't think that's sufficient basis for an article. Hog Farm _Talk 02:01, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Virginia. Hog Farm _Talk 02:01, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No information found anywhere other than the sources given by nom, and no information to merge. Unlikely search term. Anyway, the artice was created as an informationless GNIS-dump, not as an attempt to document Powhatan settlements, and is flatly incorrect in calling this an "unincorporated community", so I'm comfortable with a delete. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 12:00, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per all of the above. This is certainly not a currently existing community, nor is there any notability rationale presented in the article. TH1980 (talk) 02:41, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete With over 2,000 pages in Category:Unincorporated communities in Virginia, the majority of which like this one machine- or bulk-created 16 years ago with no expansion since, I recommend a bulk deletion of such non-notable places made by this user. I commend Hog Farm for his research that the creator didn't do, but there are hundreds and hundreds like this one, names simply lifted from a map to a database and then lifted to be articles that do not meet our notability standards, if not outright incorrect. Reywas92^Talk 05:09, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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