Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farron, Washington

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 23:50, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Farron, Washington[edit]

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Another non-notable railroad waypoint being falsely called a community; no information found. Reference 4 is the only mention of Farron that could be found anywhere, and its statement "the town never grew large enough for a post office" is boilerplate text that the NPRRHS inserted in many entries on minor railroad stations. Coordinates locate to empty farmland today. Complete failure of WP:GNG and WP:GEOLAND. PROD was declined on the basis of geographic nominations being controversial. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:43, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Washington. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:43, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. All the sources I've seen indicate this was a rail station only. Google Books turns up a number of atlases listing it as a rail station with a population of X, indicating a rail site only. The 1959 Yakima County Plat Map shows Farron was a rail site without any street grid or even a subdivided area. There are no population figures for Farron in the 1940, 1910, 1900, or 1920 census. There's no mention of Farron in county histories. There are a few mentions in books of how many bushels of crops were shipped from the Farron station. No post office, school, church, or cemetery, that I can find. A redirect to Harrah, Washington, one mile to the west, isn't even merited, IMO. Firsfron of Ronchester 04:13, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete What an embarrassing prod removal. There is no basis whatsover that geographic places require AFD to be deleted, and this user should show up here with more legitimate reasoning or not do that again absent consensus for a blanket position. There's so much junk geographic articles that more of these need to deleted by prod rather than clogging up AFD. Blatantly false article made by the same person who brought us Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susie, Washington. Reywas92^Talk 21:47, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are a lot of editors taking advantage of the fact that you don't have to have a reason at all to remove a prod. James.folsom (talk) 21:56, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I could only find this https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-sun-news-beets-at-farron/140749787/. Implies train station.James.folsom (talk) 22:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
delete It's obviously a rail point with so sign there there ever was a town there. Note that the coordinates in the article were incorrect. Mangoe (talk) 04:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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