Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gray Mountain, Arizona


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The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 02:06, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Gray Mountain, Arizona

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Here we have another problem which comes up in these GNIS-based articles: I can tell you all about this place, but not using reliable™ sources. It's not a town; there was a trading post from sometime back, and this was eventually joined by several motels and a gas station in hopes of the tourist business. Everything is now closed and abandoned except the gas station. It has an assigned zip code, but the closest post office is in Cameron, over nine miles north. A little north of the businesses is an ADOT yard and the Gray Mountain Bible Church. From aerial photos I can roughly tell when most of these buildings were put up, and I can also see that there were and are no houses around as far back as the early 1950s. But none of this is from usable sources, or in the case of the post office, requires synthesis. I can't even source calling it a ghost town. Searching brings up the usual crap as well as various references to it as a locating point, and I even found a report of a stabbing there; but the latter gives no information about Gray Mountain itself. Presumably newspapers ought to have some references to some of the businesses, but unless one of them has an article about the place I don't see how name drops are going to help. I ust don't see keeping an article for which there aren't reliable sources. Mangoe (talk) 01:40, 15 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete They also have some magnetic rocks, which is kind of interesting but not really enough to base an article about the town on. At least this one exists. Retracted following recent improvements. &#x2130; mi1y&#x29fc;T&middot;C&#x29fd; 08:06, 15 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Arizona. Shellwood (talk) 09:07, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep: I've done some digging and adding to this sparse article, this one has substantially more coverage than the average nominated Arizona place name article over recent months at AFD.  The 2003 Rough Guide source claims it had a population of 68 at that time but I don't know where they got that number, so I did not add that fact.--Milowent • hasspoken  22:41, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep I was able to find some more sources to add to the ones Milowent found, and I think the subject passes GNG now. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 05:02, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - I think the improvements to the article since its nomination for deletion establish notability for the article's subject. It meets WP:GNG, which according to WP:GEOLAND would be the appropriate guideline for an unincorporated area such as this one. - Aoidh (talk) 20:06, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
 * per Keep HEY. Djflem (talk) 08:10, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep the argument for deletion was not strong here. There was a recent expansion of the article. WP:ATD Bruxton (talk) 01:33, 21 November 2022 (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.