Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yava, Arizona

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was procedural close. This discussion was one of a large number of disruptive, retaliatory nominations of articles from PogingJuan (see WP:ANI#Disruptive editing/ Harassment by User:PogingJuan), made in such quick succession that they cannot have individually determined that there is a reason for deletion. If there are other editors in good standing that think this article should be deleted, please feel free to open a new discussion. – Joe (talk) 06:50, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yava, Arizona

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Article does not meet WP:NGF. Subject lakcs WP:IS WP:RS with WP:SIGCOV that address the subject directly and in-depth. Not an encyclopedic topic. ~Pog ing Juan 05:20, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - meets WP:GEOLAND. This appears to be a spate of retaliatory edits by this editor after they disagreed with an edit I made on one of the articles they created.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 09:55, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - As one15969 mentioned, meets WP:GEOLAND. Hey man im josh (talk) 11:51, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Arizona. Shellwood (talk) 14:47, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Draftify - There's no indication of what this place is or was (GNIS is unreliable for the "populated place" label) and no evidence of legal recognition to satisfy GEOLAND. The name does appear on maps next to a cluster of buildings, so I suggest that we draftify to give the author an opportunity to demonstrate notablility and write a viable article. –dlthewave ☎ 19:44, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Legal name per WP:GEOLAND. Post office opened in 1916 and the town name was created by the first postmaster from the first four letters of the county's name. The post office closed in 1954, so it probably doesn't look like much, but additional reference and facts added to the article. RecycledPixels (talk) 21:52, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
delete I found on EBay a postcard mailed from the PO the last day it was open, which has a sticker on it announcing the discontinuation of the 4th class post office. I can't find any evidence that it was more than that. Mangoe (talk) 01:17, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't need to be more than that. It's a "Populated, legally recognized place", referenced with a reliable, verifiable source. According to Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features), that's enough, even though the nominator recommended deletion due to not meeting WP:NGF, which is the same article. RecycledPixels (talk) 04:26, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Which source supports the "populated, legally recognized place" claim? Arizona place names only mentions a post office. –dlthewave ☎ 05:32, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Arizona Place Names (1960), page 364. It states that there was a settlement called Yava in Yavapai County, Arizona, located in a stock raising and agicultural district whose residents petitioned to get a post office there. And it mentions more about the post office and how the postmaster came up with the name from a list of submitted candidates. There's also the Index to Accompany the Map of the State of Arizona on a Scale of Eight Miles to the Inch published by the United States Geological Survey in Cooperation with the Arizona Bureau of Mines (1920) pages 5-9, which list the cities, towns, and villages of Arizona, which include Yava on page 9. [1] RecycledPixels (talk) 06:12, 19 October 2022 (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.