Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manzoro, Arizona


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 16:51, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Manzoro, Arizona

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Almost done with the Arizona sidings: yes, this is another ex-SP passing siding and presumably loading station, eliminated by double-tracking and with nothing around it but desert and to the east a bunch of center-pivot irrigated fields. Searching reveals hits on the siding or the surrounding mining activity, but no "community". Mangoe (talk) 14:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 14:41, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 14:41, 29 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete  Manzoro was part of a  previous blanket AfD which had a procedural keep.  Having a separate AfD for Manzoro is fine with me.  In the previous blanket AfD, I proposed weak delete, I'm changing to delete.  Here is what I wrote in the blanket AfD:  "... per WP:STATION.  I'm not able to find a Post Office at Manzoro.  For example, 1906 railroad reference has Manzoro in italics, indicating that there was no Post Office at that time.  So, I don't think that Manzoro is a "Populated legally recognized place." Pontificalibus' citations and others indicate that Manzoro was a loading point for the mines, but I'm not sure if this is notable enough.  If the mines or mining district are notable, then they should have their own pages." Cxbrx (talk) 17:22, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Meets neither the GNG nor GEOLAND, per nom and Cxbrx. Hog Farm Bacon 20:30, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Searching in newspapers.com finds first mention in 1897 BEFORE the siding was built. A 1/4 mile spur was built then from the RR in Manzoro to serve the milling operation of a mine a bit further away. The name was already in use. It may have been a ranch or something, but I don't see any evidence it was a "populated place". MB 04:57, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Neither notability nor populated place for the locale is established. Examined USGS historic topographic maps back to 1922. In the Wilcox 1922 1:125,000 quadrango, Manzoro is shown, but only as a single structure by railroad tracks. Early Cochise 1:62,500 quadrangles show Manzoro, BM 4439, lacking any structures. Later Chochise 1:24,000 lack any reference to Manzoro and show only one possible structure. Likely as discussed above, it is ony an insignificant, defunct railroad siding.


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