Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Filben, Nevada

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The result was delete. qedk (t 桜 c) 07:18, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Filben, Nevada

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Move for deletion because of WP:STATION. See Talk:Filben, Nevada. I previously put this article up for WP:PROD, User:Northamerica1000 to a look (thanks!), declined the prod and in their comment wrote "Some source searches are providing evidence that this was formerly a populated place. I recommend initiating a deletion discussion at AfD for wider community input, if deletion is still desired. Also, I did read the information on the talk page." In Talk:Filben, Nevada, I did find one source that mentions Filben as an old mining town, but that source also lists Rio Vista, Nevada, which was recently deleted. There are a couple of other sources (Myrick and Paher), but I don't have copies of those sources. For reference, see also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thorne, Nevada. Kinkaid,_Nevada might also be not notable. Nevada has a many railroad stations that are not notable, it would be helpful to me to get some feedback on whether Filben is notable. Cxbrx (talk) 02:03, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nevada-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:05, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:05, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Leaning keep - it was originally known as Junction (good luck searching for that) but a Google Books search brings up a number of potential hits such as "filben"+"nevada"&dq="filben"+"nevada"&hl=hr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVkIuy9cXnAhUjhuYKHdSgBLQ4KBDoAQgnMAA. Haven't found anything I'd call specifically definitive yet, though, but I don't think this is GNIS spam. SportingFlyer T·C 02:19, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

leaning delete Digging into GNIS shows that the name "Filben" comes from a 1920-ish map published in Indiana; the map snippet (which is actually showing Southern Pacific Railroad lines, not MoPac) only gives evidence that it is a rail junction. (I have found an SP system map from the 1920s here which also shows Filben as the junction to the branch to Candelaria.) The oldest topo map I've found (from the late 1960s) shows the name "Candelaria Junction" and locates it on the abandoned grade, and looking at aerials you can indeed see the grade and the wye of the junction. What you cannot see is the slightest trace of any buildings, as opposed to Candelaria, Nevada itself, where there are plainly ruins. It's extremely obvious there was never a settlement here; there's no trace of anything except old railroad grade, and everything says that the junction was all that was ever there. We have tended to take isolated rail junctions as non-notable unless something significant happened there, and using it as a reference point for a minor tremblor is really not enough in my opinion. Mangoe (talk) 03:54, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 14:46, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There is absolutely nothing there on the satellite view. Nothing to suggest this was ever a populated place. —Мандичка^YO 😜 16:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete 1967 topo map shows merely a junction at Candelaria Junction, aka Filben per GNIS. Its citation says Filben name is per a map using 1920 data, but the 1911 topo likewise shows no evidence of a community. We need something more concrete than this for notability. Reywas92^Talk 03:57, 18 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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