Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warwick, Washington

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:39, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Warwick, Washington

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A station on a now-abandoned SP&S rail line, and in this case I was fortunate enough to find two older maps, one from 1913 and the other from 1936, which make it clear that there was never a town here, a view ratified by later aerials and topos. There's just no notability here. Mangoe (talk) 05:00, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to Delete There appears to be enough for an article to exist. It was a community with enough importance for a railroad stop and a post office. The article does need improvements. Super (talk) 06:15, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's not how it worked. Stations without towns were common (and in a sense are even more so now). Mangoe (talk) 15:18, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would also note that there's no concept of "importance" in our notability guidelines. WP:GEOLAND requires either legal recognition or significant coverage to meet GNG. Which of those criteria is this !vote based on? –dlthewave ☎ 15:49, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 06:47, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 06:47, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep While WP:NOT does not apply here because towns get articles anyway, don't they, this probably doesn't need to be an AfD? --CappellsFromSkelmersdale (talk) 11:33, 2 December 2021 (UTC) Editor blocked for disruption. –dlthewave ☎ 16:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by "towns get articles anyway"? –dlthewave ☎ 14:06, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Fails WP:GEOLAND which requires either legal recognition or GNG-level SIGCOV. –dlthewave ☎ 16:01, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - GNIS spam. Not a WP:GNG pass, no legal recognition. Post offices do not confer legal recognition - they can be mobile, they can be in stores, they can be in stations, they need not be within a community. This idea that Wikipedia hosts articles on places that literally no encyclopaedic article can be written about needs to die: Wikipedia is not a gazetteer and does not just include directory listings as articles. FOARP (talk) 19:35, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks for the info User:FOARPon post offices. I thought they had to be based in a city or town. Super (talk) 21:29, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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