Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rockypoint, Wyoming

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:32, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rockypoint, Wyoming[edit]

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A hill, a farm, a church, and literally nothing else at the site. This article took less than two minutes to create by copying data from GNIS and is now going to take at least 10-20 times that in editor time to delete.

No evidence of legal recognition per WP:GEOLAND #1, no evidence of a WP:GNG pass. The only source cited in the article is GNIS but this is unreliable for whether a place was ever a populated community and is not evidence of legal recognition per the RSN discussion/WP:GNIS. Searching more broadly I see that maybe there was a mine there once, some guy called Mahoney claimed to find oil and coal there (i.e., Mahoney was the source of this information, and as such not reliable) and .... that's it. No instances of WP:SIGCOV in reliable sources.

Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia. It does not suddenly become something else when it covers populated places, especially not a gazetteer. For this reason we should not host what are essentially bare gazetteer listings. If it's a bare gazetteer listing, and the only source provided is GNIS, this by itself should be enough for the article to be deleted. We should not have to perform a kind of super-WP:BEFORE to confirm details of hundreds of articles that the original creator did not bother to do, because the simple fact is that the original creator did not even create an encyclopaedia article for us to do WP:BEFORE on. FOARP (talk) 09:37, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. FOARP (talk) 10:25, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Wyoming-related deletion discussions. FOARP (talk) 10:27, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. GNIS only, no WP:SIGCOV or evidence of legal recognition. Regards, 185.233.193.8 (talk) 18:31, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as GNIS spam. Avilich (talk) 02:57, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. –dlthewave ☎ 05:12, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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