Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Powder River Telegraph Station

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The result was delete. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 10:25, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Powder River Telegraph Station

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A small telegraph repair station, manned with 6 soldiers, which only existed for a few years and of which no real trace remains. No evidence of any notability whatsoever. It existed, that's about it[1]. Fram (talk) 06:35, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: On a point of order, this is about one of 3 related articles separately up for AFD. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Homan's Rock and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leopold Hohman. Can this be closed and one unified multiple AFD discussion be held? --do ncr am 17:01, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. It gets briefly mentioned here and there, but nothing of any significance happened there. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:57, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Montana-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:57, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:58, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. EricSerge (talk) 13:41, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect, tentatively (replacing my initial "Keep" tentative !vote). I have some sympathy for historic nature of stations like this, e.g. see Category:Stagecoach stops (about stagecoach stations rather than telegraph stations). Also I think this should be discussed as part of multiple-article AFD, in which outcome could be to merge with redirect of 2 of the 3 articles to one unified article. --doncram 17:01, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- ILIKEIT is not really a good reason to keep articles. Any evidence of notability? Fram (talk) 07:17, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - I suggest redirect to another article, perhaps a new list-article on telegraph stations which could be promoted to mainspace, from Draft:List of telegraph stations (that I started up).
  - I just also noticed there is Powder River Station-Powder River Crossing article about a location on the Bozeman Trail already; that station was located in the Montana Territory as was the Powder River Telegraph Station; not exactly clear what is their relationship, if they are same or different. A telegraph station could easily also be a stagecoach stop. But I think these are different. In the Powder River Telegraph Station article i added sourced mention of a connection from a Powder River telegraph station to Fort McKinney but now I am concerned it may belong to the other article instead. The PRS-PRC article has numerous sources, including about military locations in Wyoming which could be useful. I expect not to comment further. Hopefully others can sort this out. --do ncr am 04:02, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 16:49, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom - No evidence of any notability. –Davey2010 • (talk) 18:40, 6 September 2014 (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.