Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Radical, North Carolina


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Star  Mississippi  01:37, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Radical, North Carolina

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I don't know where The Anomebot2 got the coordinates (supposedly from GNIS) that it recently added to this article; but the GNIS reference in the article is dead, and the current GNIS database contains nothing for a Radical in North Carolina. (This may have been one of the minor "locale" entries that have been purged from the database.) There is certainly a Radical Road in the vicinity of the location indicated by the coordinates, but I'm not seeing the place labeled on any maps. References 2 and 3 are just entries in lists, and I'm not finding any substantive coverage elsewhere. Fails WP:GEOLAND, methinks. Deor (talk) 17:16, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and North Carolina.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 17:36, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * delete Not finding anything for this beyond the post office. Mangoe (talk) 06:26, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete - William S. Powell's 1976 The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places describes it as "community in n Wilkes County between Chestnut and Herald Mountains". Using newspapers.com I can find some passing mentions of this variety, but its quite clear this is an insignificant place. NGEO states that "Populated places without legal recognition are considered on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the GNG" and I do not see GNG being met. -Indy beetle (talk) 09:54, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: For what it is worth, Radical does appear on the 1913 Rand McNally atlas of North Carolina (found via this article).  It also appears on recent NC Department of Transportation maps, albeit along with many other tiny place names we don't have coverage on. Seems clear it was a rural community identified by/with its post office.   I also see Wilkes County was named after John Wilkes which even our article calls a radical in the first sentence, apparently as a reference to a political movement of his time, so seems like the source of the name.--Milowent • hasspoken  19:58, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * My guess was that it had to do with Radical Republicans of the Reconstruction era. -Indy beetle (talk) 21:06, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * State road maps have not proven to be a particularly reliable source, particularly in this case when the map is more about road construction than giving directions. I also looked into the PO business a bit further and found this listing which shows it as a 4th class office, indicating that their wasn't a separate facility and that the office was in someone's store or house or the like. Mangoe (talk) 05:16, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
 * There's no doubt the place name exists and was in existence to describe a rural area, but I've not jumped to saying it meets GNG.--Milowent • hasspoken 21:10, 3 May 2023 (UTC)


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