Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Urbana, North Dakota

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:30, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Urbana, North Dakota[edit]

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Another grain elevator by the tracks, and there is also a very old school building, but no town. And according to Origins of North Dakota Place Names, that was always the case: the station was built and got a post office, and a town was platted, but nothing ever came of it. So just another NN rail spot.cMangoe (talk) 21:51, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and North Dakota. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 22:30, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. From that source referenced in nom, it sounds like a potential redirect/merge could happen, though I don't know what the right target is. There's value in covering the history of the railroads in the United States in a variety of different ways, and a list of verifiable defunct stops that had infrastructure is a nice idea, perhaps broken out by state or line. —siro χ o 22:55, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:V / WP:GEOLAND given the lack of any reliable sources to verify the subject's existence. There isn't any point in a merge, the article just says that the subject is an unincorporated community which we don't think is true. Hut 8.5 07:47, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Urbana, Mangoe if there is sufficient evidence these were once named places why not just redirect to the township or county (probably the county) without an Afd? fiveby(zero) 17:10, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have opposed this sort of redirect because we end up with lists within these articles which aren't true (that is, list of "communities") or the redirects go to places that don't tell you about this place. Mangoe (talk) 23:57, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense, useless to redirect the reader if there is no county history section mentioning the place, and worse than useless to imply it's an existing community. fiveby(zero) 04:15, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

delete per Mangoe. fiveby(zero) 04:16, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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