Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Landlith, Delaware


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The result was redirect to Wilmington Rail Viaduct. I'm using what seemed to be the best target from the discussion, although there wasn't a strong consensus on that point. The target choice can be discussed further at an appropriate venue if needed. RL0919 (talk) 23:20, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Landlith, Delaware

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This is a major failure either in map reading or in classification on the part of the GNIS folks, because this is extremely baldly a rail point. It is in fact the interlocking at the south end of what used to be a major Pennsylvania RR engine facility (you can still see the foundations of the roundhouse) and is now Amtrak's Wilmington shops. Another yard (now NS) is just to the east, and just SW is a prison. And that's all that has ever been here. I was wondering whether this is a notable rail spot, but while there are thousands of hits for it, maybe a third of them are for a single document, the 1983 Amtrak funding bill, in which they proposed to extend CTC from here all the way south to DC on the Northeast Corridor. There was a branch that headed off through the city from here, and that is all I could find. Extremely obviously not a community of any sort, and from what I can tell not a notable point on the rail line. Mangoe (talk) 03:11, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Curbon7 (talk) 04:45, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. Curbon7 (talk) 04:45, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Rename > Landlith Interlocking & redirect > Wilmington Rail Viaduct. Djflem (talk) 07:15, 16 August 2021 (UTC) or alternatively redirect Riverside–11th Street Bridge, the bigger district in which it's located. Djflem (talk) 14:42, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  09:05, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect It was a railroad station (1889), though a railroad-oriented article refers residents, perhaps meaning people who used the station. In the early 1900's there was a Landlith baseball team.  I found one possibly WP:RS article about the Landlith railyard that might be useful at the Wilmington Rail Viaduct article.  GBooks only found railroad-related items.  I found no indication that anyone lived at landlith, though it seems like there were a few railroad-related fatalities.  I found one article about the place as a railyard, so it is marginally notable and might meet what is sufficient for an article under WP:STATION. However, I feel this is a run of the mill station and should be redirected.  To create an article about this location as a station, the article would need to have much stronger notability than one article.  Cxbrx (talk) 14:25, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * BTW - Delaware Place Names (1966) refers to Landlith as a "locality", which is defined elsewhere in the source "as a particular place or location, sometimes with past or present cultural associations". This is not a strong reference for supporting a notable community at this locale. Cxbrx (talk) 17:34, 23 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Redirect. USGS topo maps do show a "Landlith" from 1904. In 1948 we see that the label likely was not placed directly over what it refers to, since it is directly above a swamp. Right to the east of the label is a rail yard, and to the west is a settlement; by 1968 the swamp is no longer marked, and by 1993 the prison is there. It seems like kind of an edge-case, but per Cxbrx's analysis there doesn't seem to be any significant coverage of this as a distinct locale. jp×g 22:10, 24 August 2021 (UTC)


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