Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Overbrook, Delaware


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The result was keep. czar 04:26, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Overbrook, Delaware

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A single farmstead, now converted into a tourist trap complex on the way to the beach on Coastal Highway. Not notable. Mangoe (talk) 04:00, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Curbon7 (talk) 05:10, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. Curbon7 (talk) 05:10, 4 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete: Google maps. Location data says that this is part of Lewes, Delaware, though it's technically outside the city limits. Overbrook seems to be the community on the northernmost tip of that pond; the larger community on the western shore of the pond is Overbrook Shores. Regardless, fails WP:GEOLAND and WP:GNG. Curbon7 (talk) 05:16, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is not a part of Lewes, and is a separate community. Indeed, sources from the early 1900s note Overbrook. Census 1900 has a population listing for it, which I've added (pop. 25). The history of this article shows some serious neglect: only two edits ever before Mangoe's AFD nomination. But NewspaperArchive has 882 news articles in its (non-comprehensive) database. Some are for an unrelated golf course, but many are valid. This is a notable and notable place, full of history (I see a chapter of the Order of United American Mechanics, an anti-Catholic organization was active here) despite the small population and the suburbs now surrounding it. Given a few days' work, this could be a fully fleshed out article. Firsfron of Ronchester  08:47, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per refs provided.Djflem (talk) 16:38, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment TopoView shows that Overbrook was in the North quadrant of the intersection of Coastal Highway and Cave Creek Road. The modern developments surrounding Red Mill Pond are completely unrelated. 1918 map shows the railroad running East-West with a cluster of buildings around what appears to be a station. By 1944 the tracks were abandoned and the buildings gone, with the Overbrook label moved to the currently-existing farm buildings just West of the intersection. The site is now a farm field with no trace of the railroad except for a patch of woods to the East which seems to be missing a corner where the tracks went through.
 * I'm waiting for my NewspaperArchive access to be renewed but would caution against placing too much weight on search result counts; the Delaware papers show a lot of false hits for Overbrook, Philadelphia. Hopefully I'll have enough information to !vote in the next few days. –dlthewave ☎ 21:21, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep Not a farmstead, article has been improved to show a distinct GEOLAND and GNG pass. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 00:09, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   06:31, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:HEY. Should meet WP:GEOLAND now as a once populated area with history. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 13:06, 11 August 2021 (UTC)


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