Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bombshell Geyser


 * 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 redirect to List of Yellowstone geothermal features.  Sandstein  15:29, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Bombshell Geyser

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This stub was blanked and redirected shortly after creation back in '09, but the target article contains no information on the topic, nor is there any content anywhere else on WP. I restored the stub and bring to AfD for full consideration. Since the geyser is part of a small, remote thermal area of Yellowstone that itself is not described on WP, this geyser seems non-notable and I believe deletion is the best course of action here. Mdewman6 (talk) 20:52, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 22:08, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak keep: Assessing using criterion #4 of WP:GEOLAND, I think this just barely squeaks by; mainly with regard to the first source. A check of Google and newspapers.com didn't reveal any new sources other than those already listed. Curbon7 (talk) 00:09, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to List of Yellowstone geothermal features. That table could use a details/references column, but I don't think this needs its own article. Reywas92Talk 02:45, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect: This is one of over 10,000 hydrothermal features within Yellowstone National Park. Sources mainly discuss it in the context of Glen Africa Basin, not as a standalone topic, and I think it makes sense to do so here as well. It just doesn't serve the reader well to click through multitudes of stubs when the same information could just as easily be a list or table. –dlthewave ☎ 03:47, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment I think I would lean in favor of keeping over merge/redirecting to the list article. None of the other entries on the list have redirects; those that have articles are of course linked, but none of the black texted entries have redirects to the list. In general I think creating redirects for items in a list article to target the list is less than ideal. I do agree this merits an entry at the list article regardless of the outcome here. I will note that Glen Africa Basin is of high historical relevance since the east-west road used to pass right by it, but now is remote and somewhat obscure. Perhaps someday a Glen Africa Basin or Central Plateau article could be developed and this could be merged there. With the new references added, in the meantime I think this passes GEOLAND muster and isn't hurting anything. Mdewman6 (talk) 22:10, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   14:21, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect. The first reference has only a passing references to Bombshell Geyser, along with a picture.  This reference does not fulfill any sort of notability requirement for this article.  Searching GBooks for "Bombshell Geyser" (with the double quotes) had 8 hits, none of which were in depth, some of which seemed to be false hits.  Searching GScholar found nothing.  Searching newspapers.com found passing mention in two articles, neither of which is sufficient for notable coverage.  JStor found one passing mention.  Just because there are a bunch of other geyser pages listed at List of Yellowstone geothermal features does not mean that they are all notable.  For this geyser to be notable, I'd like to see one or two WP:RS articles or scholarly articles about this geyser and how unique and notable it is.  I'm just not seeing the coverage.  If this AfD was for a purported town, it would definitely be a delete on the basis of a lack of notability.  Compare this to Fly Geyser, which is quite notable.  The elements of List of Yellowstone geothermal features should be reviewed for notability.  If no one who !voted Redirect will change their !vote to Delete, then I will go with redirect to List of Yellowstone geothermal features so as to not block consensus and move forward with cleaning this up. Cxbrx (talk) 03:24, 19 August 2021 (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.