Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bolin, West Virginia


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  23:38, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Bolin, West Virginia

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Does not appear to be a notable community; searching brings up nothing indicating a community or settlement here, while there are  references to this as a rail point. Topos show a single point on the railroad, which is consist with the passing mentions to this as some sort of rail feature. Given that hundreds of similar articles by the page creator have been deleted as being false claims of a community or settlement, I don't think we should be keeping this when all indications point to this being a non-notable rail feature. Hog Farm Talk 23:27, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and West Virginia. Hog Farm Talk 23:27, 26 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Comment: it is on the 1907 topographical map, with two structures—if it was a railway station, then perhaps only one house, with a few others across the Guyandotte. It is not shown on the 1962 map, and all of the structures are gone.  There was no post office by this name, according to U.S. Appointments of Postmasters, and it is not mentioned in West Virginia Place Names.  I might suggest that it could be incorporated into an article about Lincoln County, either in a list of unincorporated communities and rail stations, or as part of a stand-alone list of the same.  It is clearly not a hoax, but it does seem to have been a very minor, perhaps ephemeral location.  P Aculeius (talk) 12:00, 27 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete - The railroad station is the only thing we can verify was here; anything else is speculation and in any case there's not enough coverage to merit even a mention in a county article. –dlthewave ☎ 03:22, 28 April 2023 (UTC)


 * delete I found nothing textual, though I must admit that searching is heavily masked by the surname. OTOH the buildings shown on the oldest topos don't seem to add up to a settlement, as there doesn't ever seem to have been a way across the river, which is somewhere in excess of 100 feet wide at this point. Mangoe (talk) 03:37, 28 April 2023 (UTC)


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