Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gordon Springs, South Carolina

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:35, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Gordon Springs, South Carolina
Delete: There is no such town in South Carolina. It is a subdivision of another town, but not a town in its own right. See. Note that the text of this article is virtually identical to the text found at Gordon Springs, Georgia (Update:That article now describes a spring/creek, so the text is not a match anymore --Durin 06:00, 27 May 2005 (UTC)). I suspect the author is attempting to create more basis for his article on Evan Pryzant (which is up for VfD). The author has made some other contributions/edits that are questionable, such as the article Hard clam which is up for nonsense-speedy. --Durin 22:08, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I edited the article to say "Gordon Springs is a subdivision in Richland County, South Carolina."  This much is verifiable and verifiable geographic locales are encyclopedic. Delete any unverifiable nonsense. Ask for help on WP:RFPP if people insist on inserting nonsense into the article. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:59, 26 May 2005 (UTC) No vote. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 08:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Articles on subdivisions? U.S. Census bureau does not count this as a town. I could be wrong, but I doubt Wikipedia has subdivisions of towns having separate articles. Any such article would/should be merged into the town's article itself. --Durin 23:48, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Here in the UK we'd basically catalog everything. It's a small country so that is feasible, and we're also very history-dense. Every small area of a big town was once a town or village of its own, usually for centuries. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:54, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * We have our share of merges as well, but our history is shorter than yours. Regardless, in this particular case 'Gordon Springs' is not remarkable enough to warrant an article. There may have been a town of that name at one time (I found references to Gordon Springs Post Office as historical in Georgia), but I can not verify that it ever existed as a town in its own right. I rather suspect the originating author of this and related articles created a number of reasonable sounding hoax pages, testing to see how long it would take to wipe them out. --Durin 01:33, 27 May 2005 (UTC)


 * With respect to the other article, Gordon Springs, Georgia, I take it this is the same place that changed hands or was always a border marker? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:03, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * No, this is a different place. older &ne; wiser 14:23, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless new information turns up. There are two Google matches for "gordon springs" "richland county", both of which are likely based on a flawed listing of towns. Searching for "gordon springs" "south carolina" doesn't do much better. The final match includes lat/long, but that location doesn't turn up anything that seems to be named Gordon Springs (I also checked Mapquest). --SPUI (talk) 03:02, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - this vote does not mean I would vote no on an article with more details about the subdivision. Just noting that for the VFU people who assume. --SPUI (talk) 21:02, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, subdivisions are rarely encyclopedic and the USGS doesn't know about this one. Gazpacho 03:04, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Although it is listed by the USGS, there does not appear to be anything worth noting about the place. older &ne; wiser 14:23, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep real places. -- BD2412  talk  18:03, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
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