Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clips Mill, West Virginia


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  17:53, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Clips Mill, West Virginia

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This looks to fall below the threshold of WP:GEOLAND and WP:GNG. A USGS listing calls it a locale (geography), which by definition fails WP:GEOLAND. Topographic maps either don't show it or show it in an italic font that is used to mark bridges and a race track on the same maps. County history doesn't mention it, and newspapers.com results are for mentions of "clip" or "mill", but nothing together. Not seeing notability here, it appears to be a generic old mill site. Hog Farm Bacon 15:49, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 15:49, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 15:49, 15 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep: Sourced by the USGS, a highly-reliable source. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 15:26 on October 16, 2020 (UTC) •  #WearAMask • #BlackLivesMatter
 * delete It may be sourced from the not-that-super-reliable GNIS, but they messed this one up a lot, starting with not reading their own maps very well. It is actually Clipp's Mill, and it actually was a mill, called Beeler's Mill in its first incarnation. It doesn't start showing up on topos after it had been been dismantled in 1947, and those early references use the correct spelling; then about a decade later, for whatever reason, the second P was dropped from the map label. Using the correct spelling, I was able to find this Jefferson County Landmark Nomination Report for the mill's waterwheel, which survives and has been restored. The report contains a history of the mill in some detail. That all said, there is no evidence for this as anything beyond a mill, and notability of the surviving traces is strictly local. Mangoe (talk) 23:26, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Even if the USGS gazetteer is reliable, where did you get the idea that any context-free listing in its tens of thousands of entries is automatically notable? Locales are especially not notable, short of significant coverage. Good analysis by Mangoe. Reywas92Talk 04:20, 21 October 2020 (UTC)


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