Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hartle Ford, Missouri


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  23:52, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Hartle Ford, Missouri

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Likely could have PRODded this one, but decided to take this to AFD so there's a better record of how problematic some of these mass-created stubs are. Sources are just GNIS and a highway map. Oldest topographic maps just show a river crossing with no development, the place name is in the italic font used for non-community features. Some newer topos don't even have the feature name. Searching brings up a few passing mentions of a literal ford. Fails WP:GEOLAND and WP:GNG. Hog Farm Talk 17:41, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 17:41, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 17:41, 5 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete WP:GNIS should perhaps also mention that these state highway maps are also poor sources to base an article on. Newspapers.com only gives two hits for a literal ford . Would be nice if could help go through his mass creations to cull the falsehoods. e.g. I just removed the false claim that Galena Junction  "is a community". Reywas92Talk 01:19, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Highway maps from some states are at least a decent indicator of which communities are still inhabited, but unfortunately Missouri isn't one of those states. As far as I can tell, Missouri puts every populated place listed in the GNIS on its county highway maps (or close to it at least), so it doesn't lend any more credence to a place existing than the GNIS entry does. In this case, it looks like this was an actual ford that the GNIS mislabeled, and doesn't seem notable at any rate. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 01:08, 7 May 2021 (UTC)


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