Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White Stick, West Virginia

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 08:56, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

White Stick, West Virginia[edit]

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This is the best I can do here. I've turned up a couple passing mentions to a "White Stick addition" to Mabscott, but Mabscott's on the other side of Beckley from this place, so that must be something different. Kenny's West Virginia Place Names has Whitestick Creek but no community by this name. Searching brings up literally hundreds of passing mentions to Whitestick Creek, Big White Stick Creek, and Little White Stick Creek, but only the single passing mention to a rail station for any sort of human site. Topos show a single building along the rail tracks. I'm seeing no indication that WP:GEOLAND or WP:GNG could be met here. Hog Farm _Talk 05:22, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 05:22, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 05:22, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete everything from this creator without subsequent additions, without prejudice against recreation. With 224 articles deleted and counting (like the classic Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monkey Box, Florida), his contributions are clearly not reliable. One-liners sourced only to WP:GNIS are not worth anyone's time researching, but thank you to Hog Farm for keeping it up. Reywas92^Talk 13:56, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This is in a mining area near Beckley. It's likely a mine, possibly of a "White Stick Coal Company" whose "White Stick Mine" was "located on the Piney Branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio Raiload" in 1917, but I cannot in fact read a source for that. As noted in the nomination, the creeks all come up when looking for sources, but they are all in different locations to this. The nearest creek to the location here is Cranberry. We've got a historian in 2019 who has a list of place names, but giving nothing but coördinates, no actual history. We have Jenkins with dates and no statement of what the name refers to, but Jenkins's only possible sources for something that it is claimed didn't exist before 1911, from what's cited, are maps. Including the GNIS compiler in 1997, who used "(historical)", it seems that we have three people who found a dot on some maps throughout a period. The newspaper says station and freight train, and that would align with a mine that used the railroad for haulage. If we cannot reliably tell what the subject even is, which is the case unless someone can find something readable about the mine, there's no basic context for building an article upon. Uncle G (talk) 06:29, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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