Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waddells Corner, Maryland

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The result was no consensus‎. Spartaz ^Humbug! 02:44, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Waddells Corner, Maryland[edit]

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Sourced only to GNIS; could not find any coverage of an actual community at this location. Newspaper articles use it as a landmark when discussing road coverage, and a few articles mention a migrant camp at the crossroads [1][2], but nothing approaching the requirements of GNG or GEOLAND. –dlthewave ☎ 17:24, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Maryland. –dlthewave ☎ 17:24, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
comment This is a tough one. The state/county dignifies it with a town name sign as you approach from the north, and it does look like a tiny town both at present and in older aerials, though the buildings change over the years. That said, it's hard for me to defend keeping it given the near total lack of information besides its location. Mangoe (talk) 01:24, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Google Earth shows a crossroads with a farm stand. There's no stop light. There's a subdivision of about 40-45 homes nearby. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 11:51, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. There are quite a few articles at newspapers.com. This was clearly a community. In the Denton Journal June 11, 1943, there is an article about a migrant labor camp being setup in Waddell's Corner. The Waddells Corner Labor Camp got a lot of press over the years. There were several crime reports, including one in August or September of 1954 when a worker murdered another in a crap game at Waddell's Corner migrant labor camp. The migrant labor camp there also was in the national news July 18 1958. There are several mentions about the Waddells and that Waddells Corner was named for the family. In August of 1958, the state attempted to claim imminent domain from "15 property owners from Waddells Corner". These sources show this was clearly a community, not just some crossroads. This is not one of those places with one or two newspaper articles, there are hundreds. Jacona (talk) 00:22, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:08, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep per Jacona. It is/was a bona fide populated place, and we can provide some verifiable and encyclopedic information beyond the location. I would actually much rather merge this, as there really doesn't seem likely that there is anything to say about it that couldn't fit into a moderately verbose list, but we have no such list currently (only a bare list of placenames in the county article). So until someone puts in some substantial work to build out a proper List of populated places in Dorchester County, Maryland, we face a zero-sum question of whether to keep or delete, and I don't see a convincing basis for deleting encyclopedic content here. Ultimately the project and its users are much better served by following the bedrock policy of WP:PRESERVE. -- Visviva (talk) 23:48, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: if this article (or any other that I have !voted to keep) is kept, please feel free to message/ping me and I will take my best shot at improvement. -- Visviva (talk) 01:05, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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