Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fourth Connecticut Lake Trail

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The result was merge to Connecticut Lakes#Fourth Connecticut Lake. MBisanz ^talk 18:20, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fourth Connecticut Lake Trail[edit]

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I'm rather surprised to have stumbled across a sixteen-year-old article on a half mile long nature trail with only two primary sources supporting it. Yes, it is unusual for a trail to cross the international border, but does that make it notable? The lack of significant coverage in reliable sources would seem to indicate that the answer is no. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Quebec-related deletion discussions. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Hampshire-related deletion discussions. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep it has been widely mentioned in travel and hiking guides. The coverage is not spectacular, but it's more than enough to confirm the article claims. Example. I've added four sources. --- Possibly (talk) 01:44, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It leads to a notable location, the headwaters of the longest river in New England, but it is also notable in itself, for its unusual relation to an international border, as noted above. Sources have now been added. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:34, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The thing with trail guides and similar sources is they are great sources for details and verification, but I don't think they do much for notability as they tend to just list everything. Up in my part of the woods there is a guide, The Milepost, that is very handy, but if we accepted it as establishing notability you could conceivably create several thousand articles on everything from short nature trails to pull-outs on the highway. It seems that even with the newer sources, the actual article text hasn't been expanded at all, again suggesting there simply isn't much to say here. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:45, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge... somewhere. Not seeing a particularly notable trail here. Yes, it exists. Yes, trail guides cover trails. No, that isn't particularly indicative of notability. Possible targets could be The Nature Conservancy, Pittsburg–Chartierville Border Crossing, or Connecticut Lakes#Fourth Connecticut Lake (my personal favorite option). Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:39, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I now feel kind of dumb that I didn't think of merging it to the article on the lake. That makes sense as far as I'm concerned, the content is kept but we don't have a separate article on such a minor trail. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:03, 20 March 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.