Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Givens Corner, Washington

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The result was delete‎. Aoidh (talk) 16:14, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Givens Corner, Washington

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Non-notable rural intersection. Was PROD'ed once before in 2020, then dePRODded by the article's creator, who cited WP:GEOLAND, but the article utterly fails WP:GEOLAND since it is sourced entirely to GNIS. No other coverage could be found other than passing mentions in the local press (as a point of reference for where a car accident or property was located). Many rural crossroads were informally named ______'s Corners after the local landowner, for the sake of navigation; this does not mean they were ever a "community". WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 16:16, 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) 16:16, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's a another Wikipedia lie. The original feature class for this one was "locale", so there's actually zero support for this passing any sort of test whatsoever even if one accepts the GNIS database record. I could not find anything about this at all, and this never truly had a supporting source to start with. This is unverifiable. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 18:02, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Note that while the creator of the article made it look like it had 3 citations, 2 of them are just footnotes for the elevation source and the pouplation and actually only provide information about where the elevation and population come from. I'm removing the census one, because there is no census data to go with it.James.folsom (talk) 19:49, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The article creator has several other Yakima County place stubs sourced in exactly the same way (all of them dishonestly using the "unincorporated community" descriptor for ordinary intersections, rail sidings, springs, and so on); I'm in the process of PRODding them all. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 23:55, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah you can tell from the edit history it was created from template that was then edited. James.folsom (talk) 19:41, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Just for peace of mind. It's a park near both Mabton and Grandview. At the "corner" of the park, The Grandview commercial club erected a lighted sign for the purpose of directing traffice to Grandview. The park is Givens Park and that intersection is Givens Park Corner. https://www.newspapers.com/article/grandview-herald-givens-park/140665419/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sunnyside-times-givens-park/140665206/ Givens park corner is also known as Givens corner.James.folsom (talk) 20:17, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I kept going later and later into its future. The park was short lived, At one point there seems to have been a camp of people living in cars there. It was described as a car park at one point. Though almost all the early mentions are like this "we got free puppies 1 mile west of givens corner". The park and big sign made it recognizable as a land mark, and the size of the area known as Givens corner expanded over time. But there are really very few instances of anyone saying they were from there. These days its probably considered a rural community by the locals. The latest newspaper mention is an obit in 1981, and some of those 60's - 80's mentions tend to mention it as being a part of Mabton. So anyone looking for a merge should consider that. James.folsom (talk) 20:40, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete a GEOLAND fail Lightburst (talk) 03:19, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.