Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farmers, Virginia


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  11:01, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Farmers, Virginia

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Taking this one to AFD instead of PROD. 1923 topos show a benchmark and one or two buildings along the railroad, newer topos do not show this name. Due to the fact that the name of this community is a common noun, I'm struggling to find anything I can tie down to being about this place in my WP:BEFORE. My BEFORE couldn't demonstrate notability; maybe others have some search filtering tricks I'm not aware of. Hog Farm Talk 05:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 05:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 05:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * delete I see that this was copied into GNIS from a larger scale map, and I suspect that the label for Farmers Mountain to the north was mistaken for a placename. At any rate there is never anything there on the topos or aerials. Mangoe (talk) 00:15, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  08:49, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete The 1921 Chatham 1:48k map shows Farmers in a slightly different location than the GNIS coords.  I see the 1923 Chatham map showing Farmers adjacent to the Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad and then it is not present in the next non-1:250k map from 1964.  Pittsville, Virginia states that the railroad went bankrupt in 1932.  The legendary Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad says "The road bed extended from Franklin Junction up Hogans Hill, or Farmers Mountain, where the grade was so steep that the load always had to be divided with the engine taking part of the load up to Pittsville and returning for the rest."  The 1923 topo shows Farmers Mountain NNW of Farmers.  I did find Farmers mentioned A B C Pathfinder Shipping and Mailing Guide ... which is a list of railway and steamboat stations.  Searching newspapers.com for "Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad Farmers" found nothing.  As this location has virtually no coverage and is not legally recognized, it meets neither #1 nor #2 of WP:GEOLAND nor WP:GNG.  Furthermore, it appears that Farmers was a railroad station, so WP:STATION applies and this locale is not notable (enough or at all) to warrant an article as a station.  Cxbrx (talk) 17:41, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, per the extensive analysis above (which I had come here to do myself). If there's nothing on the topos, and there's nothing in the newspaper archives or books... time to stick a fork in it. jp×g 09:22, 24 August 2021 (UTC)


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