Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stewarts, California

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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 18:46, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Stewarts, California[edit]

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1913 topo shows a ranch named Stewarts Ranch at the site; it's later covered over by the community of Deep Springs. Newspapers.com is down at the moment, but I can't find anything on Google books that suggests this was a community or anything other than a ranch. Hog Farm _Bacon 06:25, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 06:25, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Bacon 06:25, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete Yes I suppose a ranch is a "settlement" but that doesn't mean it's notable. Negligent mass-produced junk. Reywas92^Talk 10:06, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hog Farm, Reywas92 - I see the person who created this article is still creating essentially bare geographical articles. They are an admin. At what point is this simply considered disruptive editing? FOARP (talk) 15:35, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know. I will note that these California ones are mostly from 2009 and 2010. I simply do not have the knowledge of relevant languages to look at the Azerbaijan stubs, and I have no idea where even to begin looking for sources. I don't feel qualified in any way, shape, or form to offer an opinion on the validity of the recent non-US ones. Hog Farm _Bacon 15:39, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's the classic problem of creating hundreds of non-notable micro-stubs being easier than having them deleted. FOARP (talk) 15:55, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Azerbaijan article was from 2008, he recently created a redirect. Yes this person's junk extends far beyond the US (and obviously his expertise) but at least he's not particularly active anymore; last year he mass-created articles about archaeological sites and passed them off as automatically notable former settlements from and atlas of Ancient Greece. But yes all of these disruptive perma-substubs should be bulk-deleted, and this presumption that one person can make articles in seconds without a second thought while it takes a weeklong discussion of multiple people doing actual research to correct individual errors pisses me off. Reywas92^Talk 19:53, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. No post office. Not in GNIS. Searching Newspapers.com was tricky because there is Stewarts Point California and a few Stewarts Ranches around, but I found nothing. JSTOR had nothing. Cxbrx (talk) 16:42, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Mass created junk article. WP:GEOLAND fail. FOARP (talk) 15:35, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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