Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bethel,Mississippi


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:31, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Bethel,Mississippi

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Declined at AfC because it's been impossible to verify Bethel's existence to meet GEOLAND, but disruptively moved to mainspace so we're here. Note, there is a Bethel Mission on Natchez Trace, which may be notable as a historic site, but this does not appear to be that. Star  Mississippi  03:32, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: United States of America and Mississippi.  Star   Mississippi  03:32, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Disclosure I have just indeffed the creator ( for moving additional copies of this into mainspace. I'm not sure what they're trying to do, but they'd been warned multiple times and this is disruptive. Star   Mississippi  04:22, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:52, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: I've tried to find anything about the place, and have failed. Many false positives on the word "Bethel". Fails WP:GEOLAND 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:07, 19 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete GNIS lists Bethels in several other counties in MS but not Oktibbeha. There are a handful of homes connected to the 3.5-mile Bethel Road, and they may call the neighborhood by that name, hence the Bethel Baptist Church where the page's coordinates point, but that doesn't make it a notable community without substantive sources. Reywas92Talk 19:37, 19 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Comment: The bio of one of the county supervisors says he grew up in the "Bethel community," so it exists as a place name at least in some local capacity. It does not appear in the Geographic Names Information System database, however, as Reywas92 notes. There are old references to it in the Starkville MS News, Starkville being the nearest large town. See eg, .  Creator appears to be a new editor unfamiliar with all our rules.  Based on my limited research, a hard case for notability at this point.--Milowent • hasspoken  20:36, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * delete This shows up on topos as the church and the cemetery, period. People may treat them as the center of a general area, but there's no evidence I can see for a settlement here. Mangoe (talk) 05:17, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: In the off chance that this article is kept, it should probably be moved to Bethel, Mississippi. Liliana UwU  (talk / contribs) 05:41, 20 January 2023 (UTC)


 * 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.