Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fishers Crossing, Webster County, West Virginia

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 18:20, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fishers Crossing, Webster County, West Virginia[edit]

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Unconvinced that WP:GEOLAND is met here. West Virginia place names book brings up nothing, no newspapers.com hits in West Virginia. This calls it a locale, which is reserved for non-community sites. Topos show a couple buildings next to a ford. WP:GNG isn't met, and I don't think WP:GEOLAND is either. Hog Farm _Talk 17:56, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 17:56, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 17:56, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete The West Virginia Geographic Names book (and other similar USGS publications) are much more accurate and it's unclear how errors were introduced between this and the online GNIS. There's no evidence this is a notable community. Reywas92^Talk 19:21, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I found nothing that would qualify this entity as either WP:GEOLAND or WP:GNG. Using "Fishers Crossing" and "West Virginia" in Google Scholar resulted in 2 hits. First hit is, (Site) "508 Right Fork Holly River below Fishers Crossing" in:

Bowe, N.D., 2003. Development of a GIS Geodatabase as a Tool for Analyzing Spatial Relationships in the Species Distributions of West Virginia Fishes. Unpublished MS thesis. College of Science, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.

Finally, the last hit referred to fishermen crossing rivers and lakes in British Columbia.

Various searches using JSTOR found a lack of any applicable sources. Using "Fishers Crossing" alone resulted in 4 hits for "Fisher's Crossing." None of these crossings are located in West Virginia. Looking through GEOREF found no hits. Google Search produced an avalanche of click bait recycled from Wikipedia and a few passing references of no significance to it, e.g. "... power lines were blown down near Fishers Crossing and Route 15..." on page 368 in:

Storm Data, 2005 (July). Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena with Late Reports and Corrections. Vol. 47(7), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).

Without indicating what it is, Fishers Crossing is used as a reference point for coal mine locations in six cases in:

Reger, D.B. and Tucker, R.C., 1920. Webster County and portion of Mingo District. Randolph County, south of Valley Fork of Elk River, West Virginia Geological Survey County Reports, Wheeling News Lithograph Company, Wheeling, West Virginia, p.682.

Further information about the nature of Fishers Crossing might be found in:

Erwin, R.B., 1986. West Virginia gazetteer of physical and cultural place names. vol. 24, West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Unfortunately, I do not have access to Erwin (1986). Paul H. (talk) 21:01, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete due to the locale having zero notability.TH1980 (talk) 03:30, 31 January 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.