Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alto, Washington

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 00:42, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Alto, Washington[edit]

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Another grain elevator that used to sit next to the tracks. No sign of a town, and on page 714 of this 1894 history of the state refers to it as a station. All the other references simply used it to locate things, including the 1971 petition to abandon the line. Mangoe (talk) 00:36, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:39, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:39, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - These GNIS spam articles are all bad but the "ghost town" articles are particularly so, since they so obviously related to places that never actually existed, yet because GNIS listed it as a "populated place" the author simply used the idea that it must have existed at some point in the past as a band-aid to cover the obviously problematic sourcing. Meany at this point should just be thought to be an unreliable source given how it obviously identifies so many places as "towns" that clearly never were so. Fails WP:GEOLAND#1 and WP:GNG. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FOARP (talk • contribs) 10:42, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Appears to be a former railroad station, now a grain elevator, no evidence of a currently or formerly notable community here. –dlthewave ☎ 17:55, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - as per nom. Deathlibrarian (talk) 06:45, 12 December 2021 (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.