Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kearsarge, California (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete this article and move the ghost town to this title, which I will do on closure. if you want the history for the creation of the Station article, happy to provide. Just let me know Star   Mississippi  02:59, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Kearsarge, California
AfDs for this article:


 * – ( View AfD View log | edits since nomination)

This came to my attention due to a recent talk page discussion, but looking back at the article, the previous discussion's "merge" outcome was not carried out, and the only significant change was to incorporate some of the material I found. That's fine on one level since the two places are completely separate, but the presenting problem from the first discussion remains: this was an isolated railroad station/water stop, not a settlement. I would be OK with moving the ghost twon here and adding a brief note about this place— as it actually was, and not a GNIS-dumped false pop. place/settlement. But as it stands, we have consistently deleted these stations-without-towns. Mangoe (talk) 03:03, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment Since there was already consensus on the merge last time, you can do it yourself as described at WP:PROMERGE. You don't have to go through AfD. If you agree you can just withdraw your AfD nomination (see WP:WDAFD). BruceThomson (talk) 04:59, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I doubt I can do what I propose myself, because I don't think I can do all the rearranging required. At any rate the original consensus was in error, as we normally would not merge two different places into a single article. Mangoe (talk) 08:22, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * OK. So are you proposing a delete? Or are you proposing that we move the ghost town here and adding a note? BruceThomson (talk) 08:59, 23 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:39, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:39, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete and move Kearsarge (ghost town), California here. Since these appear to be different places a merge isn't appropriate unless someone can do the necessary research to find out how they relate to each other. However it is unacceptable to actively mislead the reader into thinking there is a settlement here when we have no good evidence of that.  Hut 8.5  12:53, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment is it another ghost town, or was this never a populated place? I was struggling to find citations. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 18:33, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete and move Kearsarge (ghost town), California here. It might be possible to create an article called Kearsarge Station but that's beyond the scope of this AfD. BruceThomson (talk) 01:01, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Kearsarge (ghost town), California, as the most probable destination. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 02:17, 25 February 2023 (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.