Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hartsville, Pennsylvania


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 02:35, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Hartsville, Pennsylvania

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A GNIS location that is not a true populated place. There is a Hartsville Fire Company – according to its website that got its name from a hotel of the same name at the crossroads – that serves Warminster, but that seems to be the only reference that exists to Hartsville outside of GNIS, therefore the place fails WP:GEOLAND. snood1205(Say Hi! (talk)) 18:42, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. snood1205(Say Hi! (talk)) 18:42, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:23, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. This represents three instances of the place name being used as part of a residential address. This and this both discuss a church in Hartsville. This cemetery and this article about a cemetery are further proof of notability. This is a cut paper silhouette of a resident of Hartsville. Thisnewspaper article says "Travel two miles along Bristol Road from the now-closed Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster and you’ll come to the village of Hartsville, in Warwick Township." This is about the death of a Hartsville resident.

I recognize that it is often hard to find references for a tiny settlement, but I wish people would stop bringing them to AfD. We risk losing a real place when a place with hard-to-find references is nominated. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 21:59, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I used to think this way and then I saw the sheer quantity of one-line articles that a handful of editors churned out at a rate that was sometimes as high as one every ten seconds with no care at all for whether they had any notability or if they had even found any real evidence for their existence. Deleting these micro-stubs does not prevent -at all- the people who live in or near these places re-creating them with actual content. Indeed it actually tends to encourage that to happen, as the absence of an article encourages them to create one. EDIT: as an example, see the location of Highland Park, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the same county. Absolutely nothing in the article, two sources which are both bad for determining whether the place is even populated, since GNIS is unreliable for that and Hometown Locator is just a mirror site, and the actual location given appears to be an open field. FOARP (talk) 14:44, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Keep: quite substantial expansion since this nomination, by several editors, give this a lot of good references and some decent content as well. For what it's worth, I also found this. jp×g 22:42, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Real village, per above sources. Passes GEOLAND. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 22:03, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - passes WP:GEOLAND, and as per WP:HEY.  Onel 5969  TT me 11:59, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - The article at present is a grab-bag of tangential stuff to which the community is basically peripheral, but it is enough to assemble an article out of. It just about gets over the keep line for WP:GNG based on this reference and this reference. FOARP (talk) 14:44, 11 November 2021 (UTC)


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