Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fraterville, Tennessee


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The result was   keep per WP:SNOW and longstanding precedent regarding towns/cities/geographic locations. Also remember, AfD is not for cleanup. --SmashvilleBONK! 18:05, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Fraterville, Tennessee

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not notable enough to constitute its own article; call for expansion dates back to 2005 and call for references dates back to 2006 yet no progress has been made to address either AbotobA (talk) 10:19, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 12:10, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep as I understand it all "geographic" locations are inherently notable. Jasynnash2 (talk) 12:19, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, yes, we have a default stance on keeping geographic locations, not to mention User:Blofeld of SPECTRE would kill you. +Hexagon1 (t) 12:44, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a notable place, but its notability is largely historical. The article has minimal content only because no one has dug up reliable sources to expand the article -- and/or because they've put their reliably sourced content into the articles about significant events that occurred in Fraterville. Fraterville is a former coal mining community in a rugged mountain area of Appalachia. There's not much to see in Fraterville any more, except for cemeteries, including the monument to the underground mine disaster in 1902 that killed about 200 people (and left only 3 adult men alive in the community). Apparently Fraterville never had its own post office (at least not under that name -- some mining towns had multiple names over the years). I believe the postal address for Fraterville is Briceville, which is also an isolated (and unincorporated) mountain community and is only about 2 miles away. I think there may be a church or two with "Fraterville" (or "Fratersville") in their names, every now and then the local newspaper has an obituary that identifies the deceased as a Fraterville resident, and it's a landmark known to motorcyclists who ride "the Devil's Triangle," but this is not one of those places for which an instant article can be generated from Census data. (Straightline distance to Fraterville is only about 20 miles from where I live, but it's much farther by road, and I've only been there once. I don't have reliable sources for most of what I "know" about the community.) --Orlady (talk) 13:59, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep The editors are correct that inhabited geographical locations are inherently notable as a matter of policy. Fraterville is like many "company towns" that were never incorporated, but that housed the families of miners who worked for a particular mine.  As such, the article is properly listed in addition to the article about the Fraterville Mine disaster, one of the worst coal mine disasters in American history.   Mandsford (talk) 14:10, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep as a real place (shows up as a town in Google Maps, for example), and due to historical significance relating to the Fraterville Mine disaster. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  14:32, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong keep All verifiable places are inherently notable. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  16:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. All towns are notable. I added a reference to the listing in the Geographic Names Information System. --Eastmain (talk) 22:47, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Settlements are precisely the kind of topic which encyclopedias traditionally cover. Since verifiability is not an issue here, that is a clear keep. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:29, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


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