Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Percy Junction, Indiana


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 05:43, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Percy Junction, Indiana

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This is, yes, a rail junction, but sorting it took some effort. It was a wye on the Chicago, Attica and Southern Railroad, with the main line running due north-south and a branch heading off to the northwest. If you go to GMaps, you can still see one branch of the wye as a wide arc in the field just southwest of the GNIS coordinates, but as one might imagine there's no other trace of anything railroad-related from a line that was abandoned in 1946. The topos and aerials don't go back anything like far enough, soe they aren't much help. I was, however, able to find two references (besides name drops of it as a station) which together show matters clearly. First, in this newsletter, at the bottom of page 5, there is a photo of the station and its surrounding buildings. Along with that, I found this map which shows the same three buildings, and nothing else at the junction. So it's just a rail spot of no particular note, and not a settlement. Mangoe (talk) 02:49, 25 July 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 03:19, 1 August 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  05:23, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:GEOLAND. I found many newspapers.com references to it as a town including . Altogether there were 217 newspapers.com references, I will clip a few more. Jacona (talk) 14:27, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * striking my previous support. There are many newspapers.com references, this probably does meet WP:GEOLAND, but I'm not going to put in the time to post the references, so I'm leaving it to someone else to make an argument one way or another. Jacona (talk) 11:27, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Indiana-related deletion discussions. –– FormalDude    talk   09:50, 12 August 2022 (UTC)


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