Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goose Island, Georgia

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 14:12, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Goose Island, Georgia[edit]

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Coordinates lead to a road (Goose Island Road) near a lake (Goose Island Lake). A few houses are nearby, but I doubt this is a community. wizzito | say hello! 22:27, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. wizzito | say hello! 22:27, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions. wizzito | say hello! 22:27, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

delete per nom.Masterhatch (talk) 22:11, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Fails GNG, and fails WP:GEOLAND - there doesn't seem to be an island on the lake that this could plausibly refer to. BilledMammal (talk) 01:24, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Newspaper sources are badly confounded by the presence of a Goose Island in Chicago; even when restricting the search to sources from Georgia, this is still the vast bulk of results. There are 160 of them, from Fulton, Muscogee, Bibb and Troup County (none from Gilmer County, where the alleged island is located). There is a Goose Island near Kansas City, a Goose Island near the Atlantic coast in North Carolina, a Goose Island in Illinois, et cetera. Nothing referred to by that name in Georgia. So what about the island itself? Per USGS maps, from 1888 to 1911 there wasn't even a lake at those coordinates. In 1935 they don't seem to have finished drawing the quadrangle (this is quite bizarre and I've never seen it before). At any rate, in 1946 there is a "Goose Island" labelled on the map, but it sure as heck isn't an island (as, still, there is no lake indicated). By 1988, the lake has finally decided to show up; there are indeed a couple of very small islands on the northern end, but they are nowhere near the "Goose Island" label; they seem to be gone by 2011 regardless. What I'm taking away from all this is that Goose Island was the name of something or other (since the lake is named Goose Island Lake), but it wasn't a populated community, and it wasn't an island. jp×g 17:56, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails WP:GNG and fails WP:GEOLAND.4meter4 (talk) 00:10, 29 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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