Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tracy, Wyoming

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 06:42, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tracy, Wyoming[edit]

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There really is no excuse for this one, given that the source cited for the origin of the name says, in its entirety, "Tracy,—478.8 miles from Omaha; elevation 5,149 feet. It is a side track named in honor of Judge Tracy of Cheyenne." The topo says it's a siding too. We have never taken sidings to be notable per se. Mangoe (talk) 02:37, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails WP:GEOLAND assuming it is a railway siding; however, the name being Tracy turns up so many false positives. As well, there's a number of mentions in books but many are poorly digitized so it's hard to tell if it's actually mentioning this place. Having said that, nothing I was able to find establishes this as anything other than a railway siding. snood1205^{(Say Hi! (talk))} 03:24, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - This article, and thousands like it on Wikipedia, is one that has grown entirely out of poorly-thought-out editing practise, that in turn came apparently out of a desire to rack up a high article-creation-count. So someone looks at GNIS and sees that this is a "populated place", and since Wikipedia practise has been that everywhere on GNIS that is a "populated place" should be described as an "unincorporated community" (a suitably meaningless catch-all), that's what they do. This is because of this mantra, that was never the result of any actual consensus, that Wikipedia is a gazetteer of populated places so every populated place on GNIS (or even worse, GEONet Names Server) should have a corresponding article on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is in fact not a gazetteer - it is an encyclopaedia. However, even a glance at NPP shows that articles like this are still being produced at a rate of 10+ a day (the latest I've seen was a string of articles about tiny "villages" in Dagestan about which literally nothing can be written sourced to a reliable source beyond the name and the district population in 2010). Simply trying to AFD all of them one-by-one is not the solution. FOARP (talk) 10:40, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Mangoe (talk) 15:20, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Wyoming-related deletion discussions. Mangoe (talk) 15:20, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Another non-notable geostub. Avilich (talk) 23:15, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Non-notable rail siding mislabeled as a populated place by GNIS, with erroneous "community" designation added by the article creator. –dlthewave ☎ 05:16, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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